Usually means: Compound where head is implicit.
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  1. exocentric: Merriam-Webster
  2. exocentric: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exocentric: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exocentric: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exocentric: Vocabulary.com
  6. exocentric: Wiktionary
  7. exocentric: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. exocentric: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. exocentric: Dictionary.com
  10. Exocentric: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. exocentric: Rhymezone
  12. exocentric: FreeDictionary.org
  13. exocentric: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. exocentric: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. exocentric: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (exocentric)

adjective:  Focused or centered on something outside of itself.
adjective:  (grammar, of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words.
adjective:  (semantics, of or relating to a compound term) Not having the same semantic referent as the semantic referent of any of its constituent parts.
noun:  (grammar) An exocentric compound.

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