outstay

English

Etymology

out- +‎ stay

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Verb

outstay (third-person singular simple present outstays, present participle outstaying, simple past and past participle outstayed)

  1. (transitive) To stay beyond or longer than.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:
      Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."

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