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Outgoing   /ˈaʊtgˌoʊɪŋ/   Listen
Outgoing

adjective
1.
Leaving a place or a position.  Antonym: incoming.
2.
Retiring from a position or office.  Antonym: incoming.
3.
At ease in talking to others.  Synonyms: extroverted, forthcoming.



Outgo

verb
(past outwent; past part. outgone; pres. part. outgoing)
1.
Be or do something to a greater degree.  Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass.  "She outdoes all other athletes" , "This exceeds all my expectations" , "This car outperforms all others in its class"






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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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