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Meaning of Outgoing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
aʊtˈɡəʊɪŋ

Definitions

  1. The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure.
  2. Money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense.
    in-plural
  3. The extreme limit; the place of ending.

Equivalents

Български тръгващ
Català sortint
Čeština odchozí
Deutsch scheidend
Ελληνικά εξερχόμενος
Nederlands ontslagnemend
Português sainte
Svenska avgående

Examples

“the outgoings of the morning and evening”
“[…] any present thirstings for God, or ardent outgoings of their souls after divine objects […]”
“It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one. At this season of the night the tides of mortality run lowest, and when the outgoing of these unco waters fell in with the setting of the current of life, then indeed was the hour for unholy revels.”
“The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan.”

CEFR level

C2
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