1 an act of testing how good or effective sb/sth is before deciding whether to use them in the future:
The play had a try-out in Oxford before it moved to London. * They've agreed to give me a try-out for a week to see if I'm up to the job.
2 (AmE) = TRIAL(3)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for try-out is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is try-out a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, try-out is tagged as noun.
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