Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Going out or away; departing.
- adjective Retiring from or relinquishing a place, position, or office.
- adjective Addressed for sending.
- adjective Sociable and responsive to others; friendly.
- adjective Intended to be taken out, as from a restaurant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of going out.
- noun That which goes out; outlay; expenditure: generally in the plural.
- noun plural Utmost border; extreme limits.
- Going out; departing; removing: as, an outgoing tenant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or the state of going out.
- noun That which goes out; outgo; outlay.
- noun obsolete The extreme limit; the place of ending.
- adjective Going out; departing; leaving
- adjective Being sent out.
- adjective Enjoying the company of others; pleasant and responsive to others; sociable; friendly; convivial; cordial; -- of people. Opposite of
reserved orcold .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people;
gregarious . - adjective not comparable Going out, on its way out.
- adjective not comparable Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined will be replaced).
- noun The act of
leaving orgoing out ;exit ,departure - noun
Money that leaves one's possession;expenditure ,outlay ,expense - verb Present participle of
outgo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective at ease in talking to others
- adjective retiring from a position or office
- adjective leaving a place or a position
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Examples
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An exchange occurs when at least one incoming, and at least one outgoing process undergoes a change in the value of the conserved quantity, where ˜outgoing™ and
Causal Processes Dowe, Phil 2007
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Being outgoing is the key --- you said it yourself, being around people you like makes you anxious.
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Las Vegas is using RFIDs in outgoing luggage now to help move bags more efficiently.
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The comparative figure study leads us back to the first draft of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address of January 17, 1961, in which the following statement was made by a two term outgoing Republican chief executive who served as Supreme Allied Commander in World War Two in a previous role as General Eisenhower:
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Incoming calls cost 1.1 cents per minute, outgoing is the same and long-distance is 2 cents per minute.
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VP in outgoing administartion nominated, little opposition: 2 times
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In our extrovertist society, being outgoing is considered normal and therefore desirable, a mark of happiness, confidence, leadership.
Now Please Shush! 2007
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In our extrovertist society, being outgoing is considered normal and therefore desirable, a mark of happiness, confidence, leadership.
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China not only has the techie companies working with them, but they have a large and full-time staff of censors whose job it is to search for key words in outgoing mail and Web traffic, finding anything that might be remotely controversial and blocking it.
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Keith and the Girl spend a TOTAL of $30 per month on their podcast in outgoing cashflow.
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October 19, 2007