[Ads-l] readout

Alice Faber afaber at PANIX.COM
Thu Nov 21 22:44:32 UTC 2019


On 11/21/19 5:31 PM, Barretts Mail wrote:
> The word “readout” in the Trump impeachment hearings this week confused me. It was used at least three times; I haven’t been following too closely.
> 
> Neither the OED nor Merriam-Webster have the meaning intended. Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/readout <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/readout>) has: "An account of the topics discussed in a meeting, especially in diplomatic or political contexts.”
> 
I first noticed this usage at the beginning of the current 
administration, and had to intuit the meaning from context.

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