top out

top out
verb
1. give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
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The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out

• Hypernyms: ↑leave office, ↑quit, ↑step down, ↑resign
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

2. provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
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the towers were topped with conical roofs

• Syn: ↑top
• Derivationally related forms: ↑top (for: ↑top), ↑topper (for: ↑top)
• Hypernyms: ↑supply, ↑provide, ↑render, ↑furnish
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

3. to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
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That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929

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Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million

• Syn: ↑peak
• Ant: ↑bottom out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑peak (for: ↑peak)
• Hypernyms: ↑reach, ↑make, ↑attain, ↑hit, ↑arrive at, ↑gain
• Hyponyms: ↑crest
• Entailment:
↑rise, ↑lift, ↑arise, ↑move up, ↑go up, ↑come up, ↑uprise
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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Something is ——ing PP

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transitive verb
1. : to separate (the best animals) from a group

top out hogs

2. : to finish by putting on a cap or uppermost course
: to reach a summit or crest

scraped through a wild-cherry thicket and topped out on the rock flat again — H.L.Davis

investment boom … has topped out — Newsweek

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top out
1. To finish (a building) by putting on the top or highest course
2. (of eg prices) to reach the highest level (and go no further) (toppˈing-out noun)
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Main Entry: ↑top

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ˌtop ˈout [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they top out he/she/it tops out present participle topping out past tense topped out past participle topped out] phrasal verb
if a rate or an amount tops out, it reaches its highest level
top out at:

Mortgage rates topped out at 10% before falling last spring.

Thesaurus: to increase, or to increase somethingsynonym
Main entry: top

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reach an upper limit

collectors whose budgets tend to top out at about $50,000

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top out [phrasal verb]
: to reach the highest amount or level and stop increasing
— often + at

Interest rates are expected to top out at 15 percent.

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Main Entry: ↑top

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Top out — (Building) To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a {top ping out course}). [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • top out — ► top out 1) put the highest structural feature on (a building). 2) reach an upper limit. Main Entry: ↑top …   English terms dictionary

  • top-out — «TOP OWT», noun. the completion of the skeleton structure of a building being erected …   Useful english dictionary

  • top out — UK US top out Phrasal Verb with top({{}}/tɒp/ verb [T] ( pp ) ► to reach the highest point in a continuously changing level that is about to start becoming less again: »House prices have topped out. top out at sth »Cash bonuses top out at… …   Financial and business terms

  • top out — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms top out : present tense I/you/we/they top out he/she/it tops out present participle topping out past tense topped out past participle topped out if a rate or an amount tops out, it reaches its highest level… …   English dictionary

  • top out (at something) — ˌtop ˈout (at sth) derived if sth tops out at a particular price, speed, etc. it does not rise any higher • Inflation topped out at 12%. Main entry: ↑topderived …   Useful english dictionary

  • top out — reach an upper limit. → top …   English new terms dictionary

  • top out — record breaking demand, maximum requests, much demand …   English contemporary dictionary

  • top — Ⅰ. top [1] ► NOUN 1) the highest or uppermost point, part, or surface. 2) a thing placed on, fitted to, or covering the upper part of something. 3) (the top) the highest or most important rank, level, or position. 4) the utmost degree: she… …   English terms dictionary

  • top — top1 [täp] n. [ME < OE topp, akin to ON toppr, tuft, top, Ger zopf, tuft of hair, summit] 1. Obs. a) a tuft of hair b) the hair of the head 2. the head, or crown of the head: now chiefly in top to toe 3 …   English World dictionary

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