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Outstanding   /ˌaʊtstˈændɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Outstanding  adj.  
1.
That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. "Revenues... as well outstanding as collected."
2.
Conspicuously excellent; markedly superior; distinguished.
3.
So prominent so as to attract notice; conspicuous; usually but not always in a good sense.


verb
Outstand  v. t.  (past & past part. outstood; pres. part. outstanding)  
1.
To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding. (R.)
2.
To stay beyond. "I have outstood my time."


Outstand  v. i.  (past & past part. outstood; pres. part. outstanding)  To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.





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... remain as now, the only relief that can come must be from decreased expenditures. But the present must not become the permanent condition of the Government. It has been our uniform practice to retire, not increase our outstanding obligations, and this policy must again be resumed and vigorously enforced. Our revenues should always be large enough to meet with ease and promptness not only our current needs and the principal and interest ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... tower, as they in turn are superior to all lesser angels and men. Thus the number of the archangels is made complete, according to prevailing apocalyptic enumeration. The contention of some scholars, among whom Zahn is the most outstanding, that Hermas makes a fundamental distinction between the Son of God and all angels, cannot be made good. The lord of the tower in Sim. ix. is not different in kind from the six angels who accompany him in his inspection of the tower. While he is, indeed, ...
— Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity • Kirsopp Lake
... respects akin to the Lowland Scotch, with which it has many words in common; and it has also as a prominent feature that rising intonation, passing sometimes almost into a wail, which one hears all along the eastern Border. But the great outstanding characteristic of Berwick speech is the burr a rough guttural pronunciation of the letter "i." With nothing but the scanty resources of our alphabet to fall back upon, it is quite impossible to represent this peculiarity phonetically, ...
— Principal Cairns • John Cairns
... spring of 1908 it was generally known that the Erie Railroad had no money with which to pay the interest that was about due on its outstanding bonds. Wall Street prophesied that the road would go into a receiver's hands. This result was extremely probable. Mr. Harriman, however, president of the Union Pacific, stepped in and by arranging for the ...
— Practical Argumentation • George K. Pattee
... Harrington avoided the Continent. She could easily, of her affluence, have paid certain large debts which she knew to be outstanding, but she held a theory that dead men owe nothing. And with this theory she ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman


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