outstanding

outstanding
outstanding (adj.) 1570s, "projecting, prominent, detached" (implied in outstand (v.)), from OUT (Cf. out) + STAND (Cf. stand) (v.). Figurative sense of "conspicuous, striking" is first recorded 1830. Meaning "unpaid, unsettled" is from 1797.

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