Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Finance 2010

  • 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.

    Finance 2010

  • 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.

    Finance 2010

  • 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.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Obama's To-Do List-- Open Thread; Add your to-do items 2009

  • Is it wise to talk about a friend behind his or her back, or will they find outby tonight?

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Is it wise to talk about a friend behind his or her back, or will they find outby tonight?

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • American film critics arealso being squeezed outby the wisdom of crowds.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

  • If you recall, it wasthis very same friendly, polite, even warm individual who this past July hadCindy Sheehan, 27-year veteran analyst of the CIA Ray McGovern, Rev. Lennox Yearwood and 50 othersinConyers anteroom, who were there to discuss Impeachment, arrested and taken outby the Capitol Police then "processed" for six hours.

    Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video 2008

  • American film critics arealso being squeezed outby the wisdom of crowds.

    Goodbye to the TV critics? 2008

  • American film critics arealso being squeezed outby the wisdom of crowds.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2008

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