Usually means: Remain conspicuously superior or prominent.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word outstand:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. outstand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. outstand: Collins English Dictionary
  3. outstand: Wordnik
  4. outstand: Wiktionary
  5. outstand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. outstand: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Outstand, outstand: Dictionary.com
  8. Outstand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. outstand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Outstand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. outstand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. outstand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. outstand: Merriam-Webster
  14. outstand: FreeDictionary.org

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. outstand: Legal dictionary
  2. outstand: Financial dictionary

(Note: See outstanding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (outstand)

verb:  (transitive, archaic) To resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
verb:  (transitive) To surpass in standing; stand or remain beyond; outstay.
verb:  (intransitive) To project outward from the main body; stand out prominently; be prominent.
verb:  (intransitive, nautical, archaic) To stand out to sea.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To remain over; remain untouched, unimpaired, unsettled, uncollected, unpaid, or otherwise undetermined.

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