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FlagofFreedom Posted 20 years ago
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to be out of

to be out of = to be unrelated to?

Context:
The Harvard Business School seems to be out of the business of selling $6,000 videotapes with Rosabeth Moss Kanter droning out platitudes like "Great companies are focused in their approach to doing business."
  

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If you are "out of the business of doing something" it measn you are not current doing this, but that you did do it in the past. Apparently, if this article is accurate, Harvard Business School did sell those tapes in the past, but no longer does so.

— BarbaraPA

  • If you are "out of the business of doing something" it measn you are not current doing this, but that you did do it in the past.
  • Apparently, if this article is accurate, Harvard Business School did sell those tapes in the past, but no longer does so.
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If you are "out of the business of doing something" it measn you are not current doing this, but that you did do it in the past.

Apparently, if this article is accurate, Harvard Business School did sell those tapes in the past, but no longer does so.
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to be unrelated to doesn't suggest the change of state (from being in the business to being out of the business) that to be out of does. I would say to be removed from and to be no longer in are better equivalents.
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to be out of
they took the EXIT door off/from/out of this business
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