プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
でかける【出掛ける】
❶〔外出する〕go out, leave ((the house))；〔出発する〕start, set out
出掛けるのが好きだ
He likes to go out.
彼は買い物に出掛けている
He is out shopping.／He has gone shopping.
出張で九州に出掛けている
He is away in Kyushu on a business trip.
旅に出掛ける
start [set out] on a journey
散歩に出掛ける
go for a walk
５時に出掛ける予定だ
We are planning to leave [start] at five.
そろそろ出掛けなければなりません
It's time we were going.／We must be going.
❷〔訪れる〕
たまにはお出掛けください
Come round [《米》 around] and see me once in a while.
❸〔出ようとする〕
ちょうど出掛けるところへ彼から電話が来た
I had a call from him just as I was 「going [about to go] out.