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Definition of "outby" [outby]

  • Outside; outdoors; abroad; at some distance from home: as, I had been outby and had just got home: the opposite of inby.
  • In mining, going out of the mine or in the direction of the shaft: the opposite of inby.
  • Outlying; remote or sequestered.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "outby" in a sentence
  • "AIG's derivatives unit has unwound most of the soured mortgage trades with Goldman Sachs that were left after the insurer was bailed outby the federal government."
  • "UFO Disclosure would also expose advanced energy-generating and anti-gravitic propulsion technologies, which have been figured outby those involved with the UFOtopic in the black world, and would free us from our energy problems."
  • "Is it wise to talk about a friend behind his or her back, or will they find outby tonight?"