Meaning & use
faceout
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Meanings
nouncountablespecialist
A way of displaying a book with its front cover facing the customer rather than just the spine.
Grammar: Countable: a faceout, two faceouts. Often used in the phrase 'in faceout'.
Patterns
- a faceout display
- put something in faceout
The new novel was placed in a faceout so customers would notice it.
Faceouts sell more books than spine-out displays.
The librarian arranged several faceouts near the entrance.
adverbspecialist
With the front cover or front side showing.
Grammar: Used after a verb: display the books faceout.
Patterns
- display something faceout
- shelve something faceout
She shelved the magazines faceout to attract readers.
The bestsellers were displayed faceout on the top shelf.
Word forms
| plural | faceouts |
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Common combinations
- a faceout display
- The shop uses a faceout display for new releases.
- put a book in faceout
- Can you put this book in faceout near the till?
- faceout shelf
- The faceout shelf was empty by the end of the day.
Synonyms and how they differ
- front-facing display
- A more general term for any product shown with its front side forward; faceout is specific to books.
Opposites
Word family
- face verb
- To turn something so its front is visible.
Commonly confused: faceout or face out?
faceout vs face out
The two-word form is the adverb phrase (display it face out); the one-word form is the noun (a faceout).
Practice
The bookseller put the new biography in ______ so customers could see the cover.
Choose one answer.
'Faceout' as a noun fits after 'in'. 'Face out' is an adverb phrase, 'face-out' is not standard, and 'facing out' would need a different structure.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “faceout”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.