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What is "stand-out"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stand-out

also standout, "one who is eminent," 1928; as an adjective in this sense from 1932; from verbal phrase, from stand (v.) + out (adv.). Earlier it was used in a sense "labor strike" (1898). To stand out is from 1530s as "to project or seem to project," 1826 in the figurative sense "be prominent."

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stand-out

a. (alternative form of standout English)