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tryout

[ trahy-out ]

noun

  1. a trial or test to ascertain fitness for some purpose.
  2. Theater. performances of a play in preparation for an official opening, often taking place away from a major theatrical center.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tryout1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05; noun use of verb phrase try out

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Example Sentences

Four hours later, they received a brief email from human resources thanking them for their work and announcing that tryouts for next season are “postponed.”

The competition was mainly for the backup role among Vanecek, Pheonix Copley and Craig Anderson, who is in training camp on a professional tryout agreement.

Carroll was in his first year as Seattle’s coach and had spent the previous months running so many players through the locker room on extended tryouts you had to imagine they barely knew each other.

There’s so many college Division I level kickers in the country, and they’re doing walk-on tryouts.

On the first day of tryouts as a 9-year-old, she tackled a boy to the ground during a drill.

For his tryout, he performed a bit about the three types of people you always see on Law and Order.

Wiig aced her 2005 SNL tryout for Lorne Michaels by doing impressions of Drew Barrymore, Björk, Jessica Simpson, and Jane Pauley.

But I usually try to be tactful and let amateur singers tryout for me with no one listening, to spare them embarrassment.

The plan has passed from the experimental stage, having been given a thorough tryout in all the schools.

Panchito's on edge and we're going to give him a half-mile tryout to-morrow, so I want two stop-watches on him.

Janet chuckled over the lines she was to read in the tryout.

You can back out now, and I'll run Smoky without any tryout, and you can take your chance.

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