let out

verb lets out · letting out · let out

1. transitive To release. The students were let out of school early.
2. Canada, US, intransitive Of a school: to finish for the day or term, allowing the pupils to go home. We're gonna have practice tomorrow morning for an assembly we're giving on Thursday before school lets out for Easter.
3. To allow to operate at higher speed by adjusting controls. He let out the reins when they were a mile from the barn.
4. To rent out. We let out the house and went on a two-year world trip.
5. To enlarge by adjusting one or more seams. After the holidays he had to have his suits let out.
6. informal Of sound, to emit. The dog let out a yelp.
7. To disclose. He accidentally let out the location for the meeting.
8. transitive To begin to tell a story.
9. dated, slang, transitive To lay off or fire someone (from a job).