outing
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1.1
- noun
- /ˈaʊtɪŋ/
:
excursión
- The company plans a team outing to boost employee morale and encourage teamwork.
- a family outing
- a school outing
- enjoy an outing
One evening you are planning on a dinner or an outing and things go wrong.
- One evening you are planning on a dinner or an outing and things go wrong.
- And they were doing a Midwest stunts golf outing.
- Lots of sports metaphors and sports outings to play basketball or golf.
- Like if you looked at her for any of the latest outings, she is power.
Examples
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We had a lovely family outing at the lake last weekend.
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In fact, the couple had met at a summer outing of the South Connecticut Astronomical Society.
Fiction book (1998) -
One evening you are planning on a dinner or an outing and things go wrong.
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And I love design, you know, and I, that was my first design outing and it really was terrible.
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I love a family outing.
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I captured that footage on a recent outing.
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- Yeah, just that I've known Tom for years now, and this trip is our first real outing together as a couple.
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One can leave home in the morning for a day's outing and return home by nightfall.
Academic text (1994) -
The best thing she'd ever experienced happened in May: a school outing to Ribeira de Vinha.
Fiction book (1995) -
Such luxuries as family outings may cease altogether, creating resentment from other family members.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.6
A short trip for pleasure, often with a group
21
1.8
A trip for fun that lasts one day
15
4.8
A short trip for fun
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3.0
A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work
Antonyms
How Long
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3.6
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1.1
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1.2
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1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
outing = out (transparent) = out + ing
The noun is a straightforward deverbal nominalization of 'out' with -ing meaning 'a trip or act of going out'.
Etymology
Outing is made from out ('outside' or 'away') and -ing, which turns an action into a thing, as in meeting. So an outing is a short trip 'out' for fun, often with other people.