Definition of "outstaying" [outstaying]

• Present participle of outstay. (verb)

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• "Perhaps you're in danger of outstaying your welcome, he said."
• "Many of the journalists had spent the better part of Sunday waiting for Strauss-Kahn's arraignment and were clearly outstaying their welcome as far as some of the court police were concerned."
• "The legacy is actually a bit mixed - Captain Cook, who was the first European to visit Hawaii, died there after outstaying his welcome."