Usually means: Beginning or start of something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. outset: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outset: Merriam-Webster
  3. outset: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outset: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outset: Vocabulary.com
  7. Outset, outset: Wordnik
  8. the outset: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outset: Wiktionary
  10. outset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outset: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. outset: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Outset, outset: Dictionary.com
  14. outset: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. outset: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Outset: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. outset: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. outset: Rhymezone
  19. outset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. outset: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. outset: FreeDictionary.org
  22. outset: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. outset: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. outset: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outset: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outset: Idioms

(Note: See outsets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Onset; the beginning or initial stage of something.
verb:  (Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.

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