screen out

1. 1.

   examine in order to test suitability

   “screen these samples”

   “screen the job applicants”

   Synonymsscreensievesort

   Broaderchoose

Questions about screen out

What does screen out mean?

screen out means "examine in order to test suitability".

What is another word for screen out?

Close synonyms include screen, sieve, sort. 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 screen out a common word?

screen out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.