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outgoing Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 (of a person) friendly and energetic and finding it easy and enjoyable to be with others:
- Sales reps need to be outgoing, because they are constantly meeting customers.
- She has an outgoing personality.
1 leaving a place, or leaving a job:
- Outgoing flights are booked until 15 January.
- the outgoing vice-president
2 friendly and willing to meet new people:
- Sherry is a very outgoing person.
3 leaving a particular job, office, or position:
- the outgoing chairman
4 about to leave an important job, such as managing a company or governing a country:
- Shareholders criticized the company for an exorbitant compensation package that paid the outgoing CEO more than $71 million last year.
- an outgoing president/chairman/director
5 an outgoing phone call or email is made or sent by one person to another, rather than being received:
- Outgoing calls are charged at a rate of 49 cents, or 38p, a minute.

Parents who want outgoing children are threatened by very quiet ones and may deny their children's timidity.
Since most of the participants attended a day-care programme which specialises in dementia care, there may have been selection of the more outgoing and social.
The men were more likely to be quiet, private people, whereas the women tended to be outgoing and friendly.
However, it was apparent that some children were less verbal in the presence of more outgoing peers.
Any single site's term as a may seat therefore consisted of three 128-year periods: guest seat, full seat and outgoing seat.
Outgoing and incoming operators need to share knowledge and build common references.
Asking for the shortest path at a node therefore causes only the shortest paths on all its outgoing edges to be computed.
All calls must have at least one outgoing call edge.