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Definition of Out-basket
1. Noun. A wood or metal receptacle placed on your desk to hold your outgoing material.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Out-basket
Literary usage of Out-basket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Factory Manager and Accountant: Some Examples of the Latest American by Horace Lucian Arnold (1903)
"Every official's desk is furnished with an "in" basket and an "out" basket, and
messages are very promptly delivered without any messenger call whatever. ..."
2. The Social Condition and Education of the People in England by Joseph Kay (1864)
"At one end of the room was a heap of coal and some rubbish and a worn- out basket,
and on one side was a new door leaning against the wall, and intended for ..."
3. Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry Into the State of Education in Wales by Great Britain (1848)
"At one end of the room was a heap of coal and some rubbish and a worn-out basket,
and on one side was a new door leaning against the wall, and intended for ..."
4. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1898)
"Putting on her hat and a light wrap one sunny afternoon late in October, she set
out, basket in hand, in search of chestnuts. Perhaps she did not know that ..."
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