Usually means: Extend or prolong something unnecessarily.
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  1. string out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. string out, string out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. string out: Vocabulary.com
  4. string out: Wiktionary
  5. string out: Dictionary.com
  6. string out: Rhymezone
  7. string out: FreeDictionary.org
  8. string out: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. string out: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. string out: Legal dictionary

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

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. string out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (string out)

verb:  (transitive) To extend on or as if by strings, wires, etc.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To prolong or extend in an unnecessary, contrived or time-filling manner.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To bring under the influence of narcotics.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To experience withdrawal symptoms of an addiction to narcotics.

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