Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who goes out; one who leaves any place, land, office, etc.: opposed to incomer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who goes out or departs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
goes out ordeparts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
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Examples
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That would be able to take advantage of programs like the outgoer (ph), you also have a program like the African Capital, African Mortgage Market Initiative which is also very sound, by the U.S.
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The new man should have looked mean or weak or rascally, to suit the outgoer.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Incomer and outgoer each drew back a step, each laughed, each tendered an apology.
Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893
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The hallway was rather dark as the incomer and outgoer passed each other; but, the servant at that instant lighting the gas, Turl glanced around for a better look, and encountered the other's glance at the same time turned after himself.
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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