transitive verb
1.
a. : to drive out : expel , evict
voters have never turned a party out of power during a period of prosperity — Newsweek
if you can't behave decently I'll have you turned out — Margaret Kennedy
b. : to put (as a horse) to pasture
2.
a. : to turn inside out
turning out his pockets to show they were empty
b. : to empty the contents of especially for cleaning or rearranging ; also : clean
three maids who were turning out the drawing room — Ethel Anderson
3. : to cause to point outward
turns his toes out like a dancer
4. : to produce by or as if by machine : make with rapidity or regularity
turned out literally thousands of airplanes and trained pilots — W.L.Davidson
turns out books faster than most men write letters — Arthur Knight
5. : to equip, dress, or finish in a careful or elaborate way
turned out in a cutaway, striped trousers, a careful collar-and-tie effect, white carnation — C.W.Morton
many of them are married, with wives who insist on turning them out well groomed — S.P.B.Mais
6. : to put out (a light) by turning a valve or a switch
7. : to call (as a company) out from rest or from shelter and into formation
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to come or go out from home in answer to a summons or invitation
students and faculty turn out to aid in shoveling the streets clear — Corey Ford
turn out for football practice
b. : to get out of bed
turned out about two in the morning to make our final preparations for landing — H.L.Merillat
2. : to prove to be in the result or end
if what he envisages turned out to be really a frontier — W.P.Webb
: end
stories that turn out happily
waiting to see how the game turned out
: become in maturity or eventually
the oldest boy … turned out ornery as a bobcat — Jean Stafford