Word Meanings - OUTSTANDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.

Related words: (words related to OUTSTANDING)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• COLLECTEDNESS
  A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
• COLLECTANEA
  Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
• COLLECTIVE
  Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, juri, etc. 4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point,
• COLLECTOR
  An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts
• COLLECT
  together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone
• COLLECTIVIST
  An advocate of collectivism. -- a.
• STANDSTILL
  A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
• COLLECTORSHIP
  The office of a collector of customs or of taxes.
• COLLECTED
  1. Gathered together. 2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
• COLLECTIVITY
  1. Quality or state of being collective. 2. The collective sum. aggregate, or mass of anything; specif., the people as a body; the state. The proposition to give work by the collectivity is supposed to be in contravention of the sacred principle
• OUTSTAND
  To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.
• OUTSTANDING
  That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations. Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected. A. Hamilton.
• COLLECTION
  1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• RE-COLLECT
  To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which
• RECOLLECT
  1. To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember. 2. Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect
• RECOLLECTIVE
  Having the power of recollecting. J. Foster.