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Deverbal from lift out.

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liftout (plural liftouts)

  1. (business) The practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself.
  2. (typography) A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.
    Synonyms: pullout, pull quote
  3. A rescue by means of aircraft.
    • 2018, John Kerr, Wanted: John & Lucy:
      If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.

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