Usually means: Venturing out from a position.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sallying: Merriam-Webster
  2. sallying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sallying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Sallying, sallying: Wordnik
  5. sallying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sallying: Wiktionary
  7. sallying: Dictionary.com
  8. Sallying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Sallying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Sallying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sallying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sallying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sallying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sallying: Legal dictionary

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  1. sallying: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The act of one who sallies.

Similar:
crack, quip, wisecrack, sortie, sallying forth, escape, outleap, pass, gambolling, saltation, more...

Opposite:
retreating, withdrawing, backing down

Phrases:
sallying forth, more...

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Similar:
crack, quip, wisecrack, sortie, sallying forth, escape, outleap, pass, gambolling, saltation, more...

Opposite:
retreating, withdrawing, backing down

Phrases:
sallying forth, more...



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