Ha-motzi

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Ha-motzi literally translated as the one that takes out. In the blessing over bread one recites Ha-MoTZi LeHeM Min HaOReTZ the one that brings forth bread out of the earth i.e. Creator. In rabbinical literature it is used as a euphemism about the one that takes others out of one status in to a different one i.e once a group had said Amen they are now absolved from saying that specific blessing