outstandingly

outstanding | American Dictionary

outstanding
adjective
us/ˌɑʊtˈstæn·dɪŋ, ˈɑʊtˌstæn-/

outstandingadjective (EXCELLENT)

very much better than usual; excellent:
You’ve done an outstanding job.

outstandingadjective (NOT FINISHED)

not yet done, solved, or paid:
My credit cards usually have an outstanding balance.

outstanding | Business English

outstanding
adjective
uk /ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋ/us
FINANCE
an outstanding debt has not yet been paid:
Most of the proceeds from the house sale were used to pay the outstanding mortgage.
an outstanding debt/balance
FINANCE
used to talk about the total number of shares held by a company's shareholders at a particular time:
As of July 23, the chip maker had about 12.3 million shares outstanding.
outstanding shares/securities/stock
an outstanding problem or subject has not been solved or discussed:
We still have some outstanding issues to discuss.

Examples of outstanding

outstanding
One of the major outstanding questions must be whether it is possible to verify these results experimentally.
The research scientist now expects to find outstanding quality and ease of use in technical software.
To the outstanding leaders, the chroniclers and others gave unstinted praise.
He combined outstanding intellectual ability with a vigorous, highly disciplined, and formidable personality.
Other areas, those of outstanding aesthetic, historic or scientific interest, are regarded as entirely unsuitable for housing developments of any sort.
Fifthly, regular reviews were made of outstanding warrants to see whether their continued operation was justified.
The challenge is to resolve the outstanding questions and perfect the technology as soon as possible.
The most outstanding result of this study was the patients' inability to read nonwords, compared with their much better performance on words.
The psychoanalytic focus on early experience has been demonstrated to be appropriate by research, and its depth-psychological perspective may illuminate outstanding questions.
At the same time, outstanding documents of the mentality of the late fourth century are masterfully interpreted.
By 1884-1885 the local authorities in our sample were already recording an annual average of £268,700 per town in outstanding loans for water supply.
He is an outstanding social scientist who has had a great impact on the work of many in the field.
The main parts of the work outstanding are integrating the visualisation of trees and specification of complex queries into the tool.
Over the past five years, outstanding progress has been made in the development of therapeutic strategies targeting these diseases.
The anatomical data are presented in a lucid form, and are accompanied by outstanding illustrations and a good discussion.
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