Home › Words › L › liftoutliftoutliftout means the practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself.EtymologyDeverbal from lift out.nounThe practice of luring a whole team of employees away from a competitor and hiring them oneself.A quotation taken from the main text and given special visual treatment.A rescue by means of aircraft.e.g.“If helicopter liftouts and lovers on the lam got the media excited, the film industry wove moonbeams.” — 2018, John Kerr, Wanted: John & Lucy:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).