force out

1. 1.

   a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

   “the shortstop got the runner at second on a force”

   Synonymsforce-outforce playforce

   Broaderputout

   baseball

Questions about force out

What does force out mean?

force out means "force to leave (an office)". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for force out?

Close synonyms include depose, displace, fire, give notice, can. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is force out a common word?

force out is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.