Usually means: Exceptional quality, exceeding normal standards.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word outstanding:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. outstanding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outstanding: Merriam-Webster
  3. outstanding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outstanding: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outstanding: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outstanding: Vocabulary.com
  7. Outstanding, outstanding: Wordnik
  8. outstanding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outstanding: Wiktionary
  10. outstanding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outstanding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. outstanding: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. outstanding: Dictionary.com
  14. outstanding: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. outstanding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Outstanding (film), Outstanding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Outstanding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. outstanding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. outstanding: Rhymezone
  20. outstanding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. outstanding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. outstanding: FreeDictionary.org
  23. outstanding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. outstanding: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. outstanding: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. outstanding: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. OUTSTANDING: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Outstanding: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. outstanding: Legal dictionary
  8. Outstanding: Financial dictionary
  9. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outstanding: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outstanding: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Prominent or noticeable; standing out from others.
▸ adjective:  Exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority.
▸ adjective:  Projecting outwards.
▸ adjective:  Unresolved; not settled or finished.
▸ adjective:  Owed as a debt.

Similar:
salient, major, conspicuous, superior, prominent, obvious, spectacular, great, striking, owed, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, unremarkable, ordinary, inferior, substandard

Phrases:
Shares outstanding, outstanding shares, outstanding stock, outstanding debt, stock outstanding, more...

Adjectives:
amount, total, some, most, average, principal, inadequate, his, medium, least, net

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...


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Similar:
salient, major, conspicuous, superior, prominent, obvious, spectacular, great, striking, owed, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, unremarkable, ordinary, inferior, substandard

Phrases:
Shares outstanding, outstanding shares, outstanding stock, outstanding debt, stock outstanding, outstanding balance, outstanding warrant, Days sales outstanding, outstanding share capital, more...

Adjectives:
amount, total, some, most, average, principal, inadequate, his, medium, least, net

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



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