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outgoing

[out-goh-ing or, for 5, -goh-]

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adjective

going out; departing: outgoing trains.

leaving or retiring from a position or office: A farewell party was given for the outgoing members of the board of directors.

addressed and ready for posting: outgoing mail.

of or pertaining to food prepared for delivery or consumption off the premises: outgoing orders at the pizza parlor.

interested in and responsive to others; friendly; sociable: an outgoing personality.

noun

Usually, outgoings. Chiefly British. expenses; money expended.

the act of going out: The ship's outgoing proved more difficult than its incoming.

something that goes out; effluence: an outgoing measured in kilowatt hours.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English (gerund); see out-, going

Example Sentences

Your company recently announced a new policy to monitor all outgoing e-mail, including personal correspondence.

They will have in-depth project management experience and an outgoing personality.

The justice minister in the outgoing government promptly filed a complaint to the police.

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Your company recently announced a new policy to monitor all outgoing e-mail, including personal correspondence.

They will have in-depth project management experience and an outgoing personality.

The justice minister in the outgoing government promptly filed a complaint to the police.

Males are especially outgoing and are the only ones to produce songs.

They worked in shifts, with one team member always monitoring incoming and outgoing traffic.

There is nothing wrong with being nice, polite, and outgoing.

He will try to put together a centre-right government in place of the outgoing socialist one.

We rode bareback with homemade rope bridles, and the outgoing tide washed over the flanks of the horses.

But the outgoing administration never figured out a coherent strategy for coping with those twin realities.

Especially for those of us who are not outgoing to start with.

Your outgoing personality helps you get along with many types of people.

If everyone in a neighborhood picks up the phone at once, some calls won't go through because there aren't enough outgoing lines.

Chileans are more reserved and may seem less welcoming than their more outgoing cousins from neighboring countries.

Also, she is really outgoing and i admire her for that.

Every outgoing train is crowded with tourists en route to their city homes or the mountain resorts.

It is a major advantage to be naturally outgoing and gregarious in the job hunt.

And probably more: in the outgoing parliament, nearly half the members were female.

The imbalance of outgoing heat radiation is much more significant than heat transfer from the atmosphere to the ocean.

SelfControl runs a blacklist to which you can add specific sites, incoming mail servers or outgoing mail servers.

He was gracious, outgoing and a boon companion to all who knew him.

The incoming and outgoing students need to more or less be equal for the scheme to work.

Within that cell, their outgoing calls are charged at a lower rate.

They heat it by trapping outgoing radiation from the planet's surface.

Doctors also once thought acetaminophen made users more talkative and outgoing.

On the other hand, that same child might be better matched to an outgoing parent who wants to socialize all the time.

Many companies try to limit that by blocking outgoing e-mails for several hours in the morning and afternoon.

It's efficient at extracting oxygen from the atmosphere, as it does not mix incoming air and outgoing waste gases.

The letters often demanded phone numbers dialed or received, and outgoing and incoming e-mail addresses of selected individuals.

Outgoing and friendly, he could converse with and show genuine respect and interest in people from every walk of life.

Most of the outgoing regional presidents are local figures without national allegiances.

Such a solution inspects each and every piece of incoming and outgoing web content.

We contacted the outgoing tenant, and he keeps stalling.

One measures incoming flow and one measures outgoing flow.

The outgoing government has not specified how much or what type of aid it has requested.

Reengineering the corporation is not much harder than changing the outgoing message.

Facebook automatically shuts down accounts that have large volumes of outgoing messages.

They're censoring my outgoing mail when they consider it endorsing or supporting anarchist or environmental activity.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

the act or process of going out: Her illness occasioned a tremendous outgo of affectionate concern.

money paid out; expenditure: a record of income and outgo.

something that goes out; outflow: The outgo of electrical energy had to be increased.

verb (used with object)

to go beyond; outdistance: to outgo the minimum rquirements.

to surpass, excel, or outdo: Each child was encouraged to outgo the others.

Archaic. to go faster than; excel in speed.

Origin:
1520–30; out- + go¹

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World English Dictionary

outgoing (ˈaʊtˌɡəʊɪŋ)

—*adj*
1.	departing; leaving
2.	leaving or retiring from office: the outgoing chairman
3.	friendly and sociable

—n
4.	the act of going out

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outgoing

"sociable, friendly," 1950, from out + going; compounded on same notion as in extrovert.

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