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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



... would have been something less than human, if they had not seized upon the occasion to discredit the outgoing administration. Cass had already introduced a resolution reaffirming the terms of the famous Monroe message respecting European colonization in America, and thus furnishing the pretext for partisan attacks upon Secretary of ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson
... stood like a boy in a dream, as the "Columbia" swept gracefully into her dock and was made fast. Her swing about was helped by the outgoing tide, that foamed and swirled ...
— Crowded Out o' Crofield - or, The Boy who made his Way • William O. Stoddard
... she plodded solidly along, took in the whole blue air and outgoing ocean, and the city, with its white palaces and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... stories appeared, The Queen of Spades, by Pushkin, and The Cloak, by Gogol. The first was a finishing-off of the old, outgoing style of romanticism, the other was the beginning of the new, the characteristically Russian style. We read Pushkin's Queen of Spades, the first story in the volume, and the likelihood is we shall enjoy it greatly. "But why is it Russian?" we ask. The answer ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various
... forward and her keel grated on the sand the crew were over the sides like a shot, seizing upon her in order to prevent the outgoing wave from carrying ...
— Darry the Life Saver - The Heroes of the Coast • Frank V. Webster


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