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Outgoing   /ˈaʊtgˌoʊɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
outgoing  adj.  
1.
Going out; departing; leaving; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.
2.
Being sent out; as, outgoing mail; outgoing packages.
3.
Enjoying the company of others; pleasant and responsive to others; sociable; friendly; convivial; cordial; of people; as, an outgoing personality. Opposite of reserved or cold.



noun
Outgoing  n.  
1.
The act or the state of going out. "The outgoings of the morning and evening."
2.
That which goes out; outgo; outlay.
3.
The extreme limit; the place of ending. (Obs.) "The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan."



verb
Outgo  v. t.  (past outwent; past part. outgone; pres. part. outgoing)  
1.
To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
2.
To circumvent; to overreach. (Obs.)






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"Outgoing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Great-Britain, which amounts annually to five millions of our money for the purchase of Tobacco, and the freightage of English ships, which bring it into our ports. VI. By diminishing the cause of the outgoing specie, to augment the balance of commerce in favour of the nation. These are the principal advantages which France would have reason to have expected from the establishment of this company, if it had been effected." Essai sur les Interets du Commerce ...
— History of Louisisana • Le Page Du Pratz

... aboard, pard, and a big outgoing mail, so I hope you will go through all right," said Landlord Larry, while Doctor Dick, who ...
— Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer - The Stranger in Camp • Colonel Prentiss Ingraham

... very good idea of time by observing the sun and moon, and were also greatly aided by the ebb and flow of the tide. They knew exactly the high-water mark, by certain rocks; they knew that it took so many hours to ebb and so many to flow, and they had become so familiar with the sound of the outgoing and incoming tide, that even in the darkness of night, they did ...
— Peak's Island - A Romance of Buccaneer Days • Ford Paul

... them they used moss, bark, some very tough marine plants and grasses. Looking like shipwrecked men and almost dead with hunger (for the storm had swept away almost all their stores), they set out to return. The natives say that at all times of the year the incoming and the outgoing tides fill the islands of the gulf with a frightful roaring sound; but that this principally happens during the three months indicated by Chiapes, and which correspond to October, November, and December. It was just within the month of October and, according to the cacique, it was under ...
— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

... that the Midbranch people had decided she should marry, it was a very wonderful thing, indeed, that he should not be there to meet her. And while these thoughts were turning themselves over in the mind of this meditative girl of color, and the outgoing look in her eyes was extending itself farther and farther, as if in search of some solution of the mystery, up ...
— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton


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