Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
close out
English answer:
use some tactic to bar a person's participation
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Vesna Zivcic
Jul 27, 2003 11:25
20 yrs ago
English term
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Native in: Croatian
Works in: German to Croatian, English to Croatian
close out
English
Bus/Financial
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
idiom
close out?
"you can close out the customer if he asks a silly question"
Could somebody interpret what is meant by this?
TIA
"you can close out the customer if he asks a silly question"
Could somebody interpret what is meant by this?
TIA
Change log
Dec 11, 2005 08:58: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial"
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Use some tactic to bar his/her participation
Although the context is not clarified, I assume the reference is to a suituation where a group of customers are meeting with a sales person, inquiring about merchandise.
To close someone out is to prevent someone's entry or inclusion (American Heritage Dictionary).
To close someone out is to prevent someone's entry or inclusion (American Heritage Dictionary).
Peer comment(s):
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Marian Greenfield
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Marie Scarano
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jerrie
: exclude/ignore/carry on with your sales pitch regardless
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Michael Powers (PhD)
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Roddy Stegemann
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asusisu (X)
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Natalia Koltsova
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airmailrpl
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "This seems to be the most plausible solution. Thanks a lot!"
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airmailrpl
Brazil
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English
Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
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Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
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finalize the sale...finish the sale
close out the customer
finalize the sale...finish the sale
punch the finalize button on the cash register.
finalize the sale...finish the sale
punch the finalize button on the cash register.
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mary bueno
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Natalia Koltsova
: finish the sale if the customer asks a silly question? hardly...
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it is not my store, nor my customer, and the asker chose a similar tactic
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AhmedAMS
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exclude
I really think we need more context on this one, but I would imagine it simply means "exclude" here (Merriam Webster English dictionary)
50 mins
to sell the whole of / end (sthg) by selling / stop doing business
end(business or operation) by selling all the goods;also, to sell your stock and stop doing business.
"The store closed out his stock of garden supplies"
"Mr. Jones closed out his grocery."
Mr. Randall was losing money in his shoe store, so he decided to close out."
"The store closed out his stock of garden supplies"
"Mr. Jones closed out his grocery."
Mr. Randall was losing money in his shoe store, so he decided to close out."
Reference:
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Kemal Mustajbegovic
quality is never an accident
Native in: Croatian
Works in: English to Croatian, Croatian to English, English to Bosnian, and 1 more.
balk; baffle; hinder
I would opt for one of these expressions. Of course, it's not that easy with such limited context.
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