Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being from another town or city.
- adjective Happening in another town or city.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective happening in or being of another town or city.
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- adjective Alternative form of
out of town .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective happening in or being of another town or city
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Examples
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You want to show the artist's work at galleries in other cities, in order to attract out-of-town buyers, but you can't do it because there is just nothing to spare.
Daniel Grant: The Art World's Slowpokes Daniel Grant 2011
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You want to show the artist's work at galleries in other cities, in order to attract out-of-town buyers, but you can't do it because there is just nothing to spare.
Daniel Grant: The Art World's Slowpokes Daniel Grant 2011
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Expecting out-of-town visitors and worried about how the possible government shutdown might affect their sightseeing plans?
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Associated Press Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray Most NFL teams play in metropolitan areas like Boston and New York that lack out-of-town college rivalries, but the few that do have inevitably brought aboard a few former pariahs.
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Today's selection of blog posts include some fashion tips for gentlemen, as well as some suggestions for things to do with out-of-town visitors in the event of a government shutdown.
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From London's Millennium Dome and Olympic zone, to northern England's "regenerated" city centres, to the windswept out-of-town tracts turned into transport hubs and hospitals, to the sheltered middle-class streets bursting with loft extensions, much of the UK spent 1997 to 2010 behind construction hoardings.
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley – review Andy Beckett 2010
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Parks department head Tim Gallagher resignedlast week after revelations, onKOMOand on PubliCola, about his extensive out-of-town travel this year.
McGinn Orders New Restrictions on Travel, Won’t Seek Arizona Boycott « PubliCola 2010
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The latter lend a sheen of prestige to this out-of-town event, in Minghella's native Isle Of Wight.
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Tax the goofy hipsters who settle on out-of-town nastiness like Rainier and Pabst.
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The only time we eat in a restaurant in the States is when we have an out-of-town delivery and the company pays for our meal.
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