dress out
Verb

dress out

  1. (intransitive) To change one's clothes to prepare for outdoors activities, such as physical education; to be wearing clothes appropriate for such activities.
  2. (medicine, transitive) To dress and equip (staff or patients) in preparation for leaving the hospital.
    • 1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines
      On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not least, his ticket and transportation to his home.
    • 1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents
      Proper Dress-out.
      1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
      2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.
  3. (transitive, sometimes, ergative) To butcher and prepare (an animal) for consumption.



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