Usually means: Choose not to participate actively.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. sit out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sit out: Merriam-Webster
  3. sit out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sit out: Vocabulary.com
  5. sit-out: Wordnik
  6. sit out: Wiktionary
  7. sit out: Dictionary.com
  8. sit out: Rhymezone
  9. Sit Out: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. sit out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sit out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. sit out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sit out: Legal dictionary
  2. sit out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sit out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sit out: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (sit out)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
verb:  (transitive) To await the cessation of, without taking part.
verb:  (poker) To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
verb:  (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
verb:  (wrestling) To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.
noun:  Alternative form of sitout [(chiefly India, Nigeria) An outdoor area that is set up for sitting, including a floor and seats, and possibly, but not necessarily having a roof, screens, or elevated platform.]
noun:  Alternative form of sit-out [A time-out.]

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