What does based out of mean

Community Bot 1. Pratik Deoghare Pratik Deoghare 1, 4 4 gold badges 11 11 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Related: english. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Agreed absolutely. A "non-universally-observed" nuance, but a nuance nevertheless. Michael Michael 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. KeithS KeithS Tristan Tristan 2, 17 17 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. It also sounds odd and weird and illiterate, or like someone mixed up "based in" and something like "works out of" to my American ears.

Barrie England Barrie England k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. That may be the derivation, but it is indeed quite common AmEng usage. Something is always based on something else. Harry Harry 11 1 1 bronze badge. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Totally agree. People are idiots. Please refrain from using language to refer to people who simply have a different way of speaking than you unless you would insult them like that to their faces.

You are being judgmental, and I would venture a bit of a coward. This is just a guess, but I think it may have originated with long-haul truck drivers. Nobody here has mentioned the grammar. While participial adjectives are common, such adverbs are not, though they are possible. An adverb tells you where, when or how something is done, so, okay. What does anyone else here think? The meaning, however, is easily discerned regardless of which of these two expressions is used.

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