Definition of "pullout" []

• A withdrawal, especially of troops. (noun)
• Change from a dive to level flight. Used of an aircraft. (noun)
• An object designed to be pulled out. (noun)

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• "In a debate October 21, he said, “I have a quote form [General David] Petraeus in the office under plastic: ‘the threat of a troop pullout is useful.’”"
• "And yet those letterforms somehow convey an immediacy — in pullout quotes or strips of bulletin text."
• "Michael O'Hanlon, national security expert at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank, said he believes Americans will make a serious assessment at the end of 2010 as to whether a pullout is necessary."