Definition of Outstays

1. Verb. (third-person singular of outstay) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outstays

1. outstay [v] - See also: outstay

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outstays

outstaring
outstart
outstarted
outstarting
outstarts
outstate
outstated
outstates
outstating
outstation
outstations
outstay
outstay one's welcome
outstayed
outstaying
outstays (current term)
outsteer
outsteered
outsteering
outsteers
outstep
outstepped
outstepping
outsteps
outstink
outstinking
outstinks
outstood
outstorm
outstormed

Literary usage of Outstays

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1903)
"How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, 3. out-dwells, outstays. 7. obliged faith, faith bound by ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"Contents: v. i, Friendship outstays the hurrying flight of time; v. 2, Friendship's greeting; v. 3, In token of fond friendship; v. 4, Kind thoughts; v. ..."

3. The Bookman P (1910)
"Friendship outstays. (Dodge Pub. Co.) S«. JUVENILES 1. Rover Boys. Winfield. (Grosset & Dun- lap.) бос. 2. Motor Boys. Young. (Cupples & Leon.) бос. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"What if the vessel outstays this period ? The Hague Convention simply says that the neutral may take such measures as it considers necessary to render it ..."

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