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🧑‍🎓 A person from elsewhere 🗺️ From another state 🏞️ Outside main city
outstate

outstate

6.6
From a different state than the one being discussed, often for higher tuition
  • adjective
  • /ˈaʊtˌsteɪt/
  • US
translation icon : fuera del estado
  • Many students from outstate universities attend this conference every year.

Examples

  • She moved to California, but her job will still be based outstate in New York.

  • It was only outstate that any sizable number of people could say (whether true or not) that it wouldn't affect anyone they knew and cared about.

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  • The outstate residents face different regulations than those living in the city.

Surface Forms

outstate positive

Morphology

outstate = state (transparent) = out + state

Formed by the productive prefix 'out-' (outside) + 'state', so the meaning 'outside the state' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Outstate comes from the parts out and state, meaning 'outside the state', so an outstate student is someone who comes from a different state and does not have in-state status.