outsider
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dər noun
1.
a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
2.
a person unconnected or unacquainted with the matter in question: Not being a parent, I was regarded as an outsider.
3.
a racehorse, sports team, or other competitor not considered likely to win or succeed.
4.
a person or thing not within an enclosure, boundary, etc.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing excluded from or not a member of a set, group, etc |
| 2. | a contestant, esp a horse, thought unlikely to win in a race |
| 3. | (Canadian) (in the north) a person who does not live in the Arctic regions |
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Word Origin & History
outsider
1800, from outside; figurative sense of "a person isolated from conventional society" is first recorded 1907. The sense of race horses "outside" the favorites is from 1836; hence outside chance (1909).
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Example sentences
And what you gossip about with an outsider may come back to haunt you if the job candidate reveals that you were the source.
Final beneficial ownership is impossible for an outsider to establish.
As though only a total outsider, or fool, or wise guy would apply such workaday logic to the briefing process.
But to an outsider they seem indistinguishable from the more established manses.
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