Outstand vs Overdue - What's the difference?
outstand | overdue |
To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay.
To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
To stand out to sea.
To stand over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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As a verb outstand
is to resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.As an adjective overdue is
late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.outstand
English
Verb
- outstanding contracts
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)overdue
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Adjective
(en adjective)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}