sleep out

1. 1.

   work in a house where one does not live

   “our cook lives out; he can easily commute from his home”

   Synonymslive out

   Broadercommute

Questions about sleep out

What does sleep out mean?

sleep out means "work in a house where one does not live".

What is another word for sleep out?

Close synonyms include live out. 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 sleep out a common word?

sleep out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.