ausmustern

German

Etymology

aus- +‎ mustern

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaʊ̯smʊstɐn/
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  • Hyphenation: aus‧mus‧tern

Verb

ausmustern (weak, third-person singular present mustert aus, past tense musterte aus, past participle ausgemustert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to sort out, to make a specimen included in one group but not the other, to pick
    • 1919, Bruno Schremmer, Lebensbilder aus der Kirchengeschichte, Tübingen: Mohr, page III:
      Aus Hunderten von Büchern habe ich den anschaulichen Stoff ausgemustert, alles Überflüssige weggeschnitten, jedes Lebensbild bis in die einzelnen Abschnitte hinein scharf gegliedert […]
      From hundreds of books I have selected the instructive matter, cut off all superfluous, edited down every biographical picture sharply by discrete stages of lives […]
    • 2010, Der Spiegel‎, number 29/2010, page 99:
      Während die Airlines gegen Verluste kämpfen, boomt die Abwrackbranche. Der wirtschaftliche Druck lässt die Fluglinien immer früher Modelle ausmustern, die nicht mehr effizient genug sind.
      While the airlines fight against losses, the demolition industry booms. The economic pressure makes airlines sort out models, which are not efficient enough anymore, earlier and earlier.
    1. (military) to discharge as unfit
    2. (military and law enforcement in Austria today, elsewhere obsolete) to put into office after training or preparatory service
    3. (textiles) to pick an example fabric out of
    4. (textiles, rare) to confer a pattern to

Conjugation

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