domestic system

Production system widespread in 17th-century Europe in which merchant-employers “put out” materials to rural home workers, who then returned finished products to the employers for payment. The domestic system differed from the handicraft system of home production in that the workers neither bought materials nor sold products. It undermined the urban guilds and brought the first widespread industrial employment of women and children. The system was generally superseded by employment in factories but was retained in the 20th century in some industries, notably watchmaking in Switzerland, toy manufacturing in Germany, and many industries in India and China.

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Titles

• Out (film), 1982 American movie directed by Eli Hollander, starring Peter Coyote
• Out (miniseries), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell
• Out (novel), 1997 novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino

Terms used in sports and recreation

• Out (baseball), play which retires the batter or a base runner
• Out (cricket), the loss of a wicket by a batsman; also known as "dismissal"
• Out (poker), unseen card which is expected to win a hand, if drawn

Media outlets and terms pertaining to (basically) homosexual culture

• Coming out or coming out of the closet, publicly revealing one's own homosexuality
• Outing, publicly revealing someone else's homosexuality
• Out (magazine), American publication aimed at a homosexual readership
• Out (website), community website for gay men and women around the world

Other terms

• Not in
• Out, in or entering a state of unconsciousness
• Out, 1960s jazz term referring to "the new thing". See Eric Dolphy
• The List: What's In and Out assigns social or cultural meaning to "out"—person, idea, or activity that is not popular or not recommended
• Outer automorphism group, a quotient of the automorphism group