Log out means to leave an account, app or system. The form be logged out describes something that happened to you: You've been logged out. That's how a site tells you it ended your session itself: you were inactive for a long time, changed your password or signed in on another device.
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log out (of + account/app); log somebody out; be/get logged out
- Log out of your email before you leave the hotel computer.
- The app logged me out after I changed my password, so I had to sign in again.
- I keep getting logged out of the online course every twenty minutes.
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First versionDon't forget to logout when you finish working on the shared computer.
RevisionDon't forget to log out when you finish working on the shared computer.
Logout as one word is a noun or adjective: the logout button, an automatic logout. The verb is two words: log out, logged out, logging out. The one-word spelling is common on buttons, but after to you need a verb, so two words.
Log off means almost the same, but it's more often about a whole computer or work network: log off at the end of the day. Sign out has the same meaning in Google and Microsoft interfaces. The opposite action is log in: Log in to see your results.
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If you don't ___ on a shared computer, the next person can read your email.
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log out — If you don't leave your account on a shared computer, the next person will open your email, so it's log out. Log in is the opposite, signing in: if you hadn't signed in, there would be nothing for others to read.
Describe a time an app or website suddenly kicked you out of your account. Say which one it was and why it happened.
Last week the banking app logged me out in the middle of a payment because I had been inactive for five minutes.
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