Outgoing definitions

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Outgoing means something that is departing.

An example of outgoing is the train leaving the train station.

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The definition of outgoing is someone who is talkative, comfortable meeting others and friendly.

An example of someone outgoing is a very friendly bartender.

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Sociable and responsive to others; friendly.

A warm, outgoing personality.

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Intended to be taken out, as from a restaurant.

Outgoing orders of Chinese food.

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Going out or away; departing.

An outgoing passenger train.

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Retiring from or relinquishing a place, position, or office.

The outgoing chairperson.

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Addressed for sending.

Outgoing mail.

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Expansive, friendly, etc.

An outgoing personality.

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Going out; leaving.
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Retiring from office.
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The act of going out.
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An outlay; expenses.
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Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people; gregarious.

Tom is very outgoing and enjoys meeting people; his brother, on the other hand, is painfully shy.

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(not comparable) Going out, on its way out.

Is there any outgoing post?

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(not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).

The outgoing politician wasn't too disappointed he'd lost the election; he was tired of political infighting.

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The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
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(chiefly in the plural) Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
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The extreme limit; the place of ending.
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Sentence Examples

  • "Thanks," Kiera said, doubting her outgoing friend would sit in a corner like she planned on doing.

  • He also might say, from it as His offspring, to it as the object of His outgoing love are all things.

  • de Candolle have pointed out, it is insignificant as compared with the outgoing one.

  • Sometimes, as on the Central London railway, the acceleration of gravity is also utilized; the different stations stand, as it were, on the top of a hill, so that outgoing trains are aided at the start by having a slope to run down, while incoming ones are checked by the rising gradient they encounter.

  • The sole name he retained was Mick, the jolly outgoing spokesman for the group, who seemed to know all of the others.

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