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out-of-town
[ out-uhv-toun ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or from another city or town:
We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- taking place in another city or town:
the out-of-town tryout of a new play.
Word History and Origins
Origin of out-of-town1
Idioms and Phrases
Away from the town or city under consideration; away from home. For example, In his new job Tom will be going out of town nearly every week , or He's out of town but I'll have him call you when he gets back . [Late 1300s]Example Sentences
Many of the out-of-town culprits post bail and then mail in their pleas and payments later.
Nor does he believe in the slash-and-strip-the-assets approach of some other out-of-town landlords.
Everybody but our out-of-town friend—this was what she had known it was like.
Apparently the managing editor accepted it as something inevitable in an out-of-town assignment.
The committee claimed to have imported over 10,000 out-of-town building mechanics to take the places of the strikers.
Catalogues are given a wider circulation in America, and more dependence is placed on the receipt of bids from out-of-town buyers.
He was old enough to be twitted for bachelorhood, and to lay the blame upon an outdoor and out-of-town profession.
"Good-morning, sir," said the latter, thinking at first that he was encountering one of his out-of-town customers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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