Harvard Business School has put out statements ...

[Silverobama]

Hi.

The following paragraph is from the Atlantic.com:

Change is afoot in corporate America. For the past two months, everyone from Chevron to Comcast and Hershey's to Harvard Business School has put out statements containing the phrase “We stand in solidarity with the Black community,” or some very close variant.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...are-licensing-themselves-discriminate/614947/

Does "put out" mean "put up" here? I looked up the phrase and found more than ten definitions of it. Please enlighten me.

 

[Tarheel]

They made them public.

 

[tedmc]

They issued statements to the media.

 

[jutfrank]

Does "put out" mean "put up" here?

This is not a good question. How can one word 'mean' another word? How can we possibly know what you think 'put up' means?

I looked up the phrase and found more than ten definitions of it. Please enlighten me.

Here's some enlightenment: This is a perfect case of understanding meaning from context. If you understand what statements are, why corporations make them, and what they do with them, it's extremely hard not to understand what this sentence, and thus the word, means. You don't need a dictionary for this.

 

[Tarheel]

@Silverobama It's not going to help you understand things better to take a phrase out of context and ask what it means. Nothing means anything out of context.