Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying without or beyond the boundary or limit: external; extraneous; non-appurtenant; alien.
- Lying at a distance from the main body, design, etc.; appurtenant, but not contiguous; disconnected; isolated; hence, unrelated; extrinsic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lying or being at a distance from the central part, or the main body; being on, or beyond, the frontier; exterior; remote; detached.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Relatively remote from somecentral location . - adjective Located
outside of someboundary orlimit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relatively far from a center or middle
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Examples
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The only solution to low service in outlying areas in S.F. or Chicago is common dispatch in low service areas — which should be very easy to program into the automated dispatch systems coming more and more into use.
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And why should the rest of us subsidize folks who live in outlying areas to commute?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Commuter Rail Numbers Don’t Even Work With the Supporters’ Numbers 2009
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In the face of unpopular wars abroad that were thought to breed unrest and cripple prosperity, the world economy has shrugged off ostensible calamity and brought ever more people in outlying regions into a new global mainstream.
The Great New Bull Market In Aerospace And Industrials Rick Whittington 2010
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Many in outlying areas took "Deliverance" as a tutorial or "What we're obligated to do!"
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Many in outlying areas took "Deliverance" as a tutorial or "What we're obligated to do!"
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And although the headlines make a big deal of cougar sightings in outlying regions, we have had them in our backyards occasionally over the years, too.
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Partly cloudy and cool conditions Saturday night (lows 40s, but 30s in outlying areas).
Forecast: Fickle fall weather Matt Rogers 2010
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An increasingly smaller proportion of consumers will find mass transit efficient in outlying areas, that is, in urban sprawl.
Mass Transit and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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During this part of training, on the weekends we might walk the few miles to Marapyane (we were all staying in outlying villages) or hang with our families while they went to church/funerals/weddings/etc.
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The inescapable dominance of colonial land tenure, the restructuring of land claims in outlying districts, the penetration of settler kin networks, the prevalence of settler material culture, the formal imposition of Khoisan labor bondage, and the arrival of local church and government administration all mark significant turning points in the Cedarberg, moments when orthodoxy vanquished alternatives.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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