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outhousing

outhousing is the present participle and gerund of outhouse.

Noun

outhousing (countable and uncountable, plural outhousings)

  1. The housing of materials in a separate building.
  2. Outbuildings collectively.

Meaning of outhouse

Verb

outhouse (third-person singular simple present outhouses, present participle outhousing, simple past and past participle outhoused)

  1. (transitive) To house in a separate building.
    • In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)

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Forms of outhousing

pluralouthousings

Questions about outhousing

What does outhousing mean?
Outhousing means the housing of materials in a separate building.
What is outhousing the present participle and gerund of?
Outhousing is the present participle and gerund of outhouse.
What part of speech is outhousing?
Outhousing is a noun.
What is the plural of outhousing?
The plural of outhousing is outhousings.

Words near outhousing in the dictionary

  1. outhorrors
  2. outhouse
  3. outhoused
  4. outhouses
  5. outhousey
  6. outhousing
  7. outhousings
  8. outhowl
  9. outhowled
  10. outhowling
  11. outhowls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outhousing (page history and authors); outhouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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