Usually means: Unfold or occur in sequence.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. play out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. play out: Merriam-Webster
  3. play out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. play out: Vocabulary.com
  5. play-out: Wordnik
  6. play out: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. play out: Wiktionary
  8. play out: Dictionary.com
  9. play out: Rhymezone
  10. play out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. play out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. play out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. play out: Legal dictionary
  2. play out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. play out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. play out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. play out: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (play out)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, out.
verb:  (transitive) To play (a game etc.) to its conclusion.
verb:  (transitive) To play music to accompany the end of, or as a final segment in (a programme, broadcast etc.).
verb:  (intransitive) To occur or develop in a certain manner.
verb:  (transitive, perhaps influenced by or confused with 'pay out') To feed (rope, cord, etc.) so as to allow more length or slackness.

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