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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outgoing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outgoing/extrovert personality (=liking to talk to people)
▪ The job requires someone with an outgoing personality.
incoming/outgoing calls (=coming into or going out of a place)
▪ You have to dial 9 first to make an outgoing call.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
government
▪ Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned.
▪ No party won an absolute majority and the outgoing government remained in office in a caretaker capacity as inter-party negotiations took place.
▪ The resignation of the outgoing government, also headed by Pelivan, was accepted.
▪ Three days later army elements, apparently with the knowledge of the outgoing government, attempted an unsuccessful coupd'état.
partner
▪ The continuing partners will wish to ensure that the outgoing partner can not damage that goodwill.
▪ However, it is important to distinguish the presumptions applied to outgoing partners from those relevant to incoming ones.
▪ Clients of an outgoing partner must, of course, always be informed of his leaving the firm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an outgoing personality
▪ Jamie is a friendly, outgoing woman.
▪ Marshall's skills and her outgoing personality made her very effective in her public relations jobs.
▪ She's become more outgoing since she went to college.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An outgoing man, Mr Gibbs engaged himself in conversation with Jimmy and the boy's sisters.
▪ But Mr Clinton will not be able to immediately bask in the outgoing President's glory.
▪ I've become more outgoing since.
▪ I am an outgoing, lively person who enjoys adventures and meeting new people.
▪ She seems outgoing enough but she keeps things locked inside her.
▪ The outgoing criminal code had provided for the death penalty for 18 kinds of crimes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outgoing

outgoing \out"go`ing\, a.

  1. Going out; departing; leaving; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer.

  2. Being sent out; as, outgoing mail; outgoing packages.

  3. Enjoying the company of others; pleasant and responsive to others; sociable; friendly; convivial; cordial; -- of people; as, an outgoing personality. Opposite of reserved or cold.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outgoing

1630s, "that goes out," from out (adv.) + going. Meaning "sociable, friendly," attested from 1950, on same notion as in extrovert. Middle English had a noun outgoing "a departure," mid-14c., from a verb outgo "to go forth," and Old English had utgangende "outgoing" (literal). Related: Outgoingness.

Wiktionary
outgoing
  1. 1 Comfortable in social settings and interactions; confident in dealing with people especially in meeting new people; gregarious. 2 (context not comparable English) Going out, on its way out. 3 (context not comparable English) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced). n. 1 The act of leaving or going out; exit, departure. 2 (context chiefly in the plural English) money that leaves one's possession; expenditure, outlay, expense 3 The extreme limit; the place of ending. v

  2. (present participle of outgo English)

WordNet
outgoing
  1. adj. going out or away or of the past; "an outgoing steamship"; "the outgoing president" [ant: incoming]

  2. at ease in talking to others [syn: extroverted, forthcoming]

  3. somewhat extroverted [syn: extrovertish]

Usage examples of "outgoing".

The outgoing Premier, Meline, had attempted to deal with the case by denying that any case existed after the rendering of a verdict, but Cavaignac decided to face the issue squarely.

Mark remembered him vividly from his days as a resident at NYCH when the man served as outgoing chairman of the Obstetrics Department prior to retirement.

It overvaulted two immense marble platforms, alongside two sets of tracks, one incoming, one outgoing, and that area of the station looked neither new nor proud: already begrimed with soot and shadowed by a permanent pall of smoke hanging under the girdered glass roof.

Hawking realized that to someone looking at the black hole from the safety of afar, the combined effect of this tearing apart of virtual photon pairs, happening over and over again all around the horizon of the black hole, will appear as a steady stream of outgoing radiation.

I presume you have inquired into the causes of this collision, and of the two incoming, outgoing convoys being routed so close together.

Banking for the makeup of the deposit for the day, the letter would be sent to Outgoing Mail for a special letter of thanks with the facsimile signature of Matthew Meadows or John Tinker Meadows so well done it could not be told from an original signature.

She was well aware that telemarketing companies deliberately rigged their outgoing phone banks to thwart incoming calls, yet she continued to punch the buttons.

She hesitated then, and touched keys on the workboard to find an outgoing communications channel.

But she knew that the brass was especially skittish of words like harassment and gender bias, was still smarting from the sexual harassment charges several female employees had made against the outgoing superintendent months before.

Holly lived in fairly usual fashion at permanent full stretch of their permitted overdraft, juggling the incoming cheques from the owners with the outgoing expenses of fodder, wages, overheads and taxes.

The couriers knew only their incoming and outgoing counterparts, so that they were organized in cells of three only, another lesson learned from the dead KGB officer.

Inman up to date on the issues affecting NSA, the outgoing director, Lew Allen, gave him some highly classified reading.

The mailroom was a paper nightmare, each day subjected to an avalanche of more, moving two ways, though outgoing paper seldom equaled the inward flow.

But the outgoing President, and several news outlets, had received brief, untraceable telephone calls from Mary Catherine Cozzano, assuring them that everything was okay.

Dickie had made the grooms practise the change-over before they were despatched to the post houses but he couldn't duplicate the real problems they might face in an inn yard crowded with in going and outgoing stagecoaches, mail coaches chaises, barouches, cabriolets and curricles as well as slow gigs and lumbering farm carts, all wanting to change horses rapidly at the same time.