Adjective
outlying
- Relatively remote from some central location.
- The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
- Located outside of some boundary or limit.
- When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
- (relatively remote) distant, far; see also Thesaurus:distant
- Russian: удалённый
outlying (plural outlyings)
- A region relatively remote from a central location.
- 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
- The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.
- 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
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