outward-looking
outward-looking adjective: looking towards or thinking about other people, places, or things, rather than towards or about oneself.
Adjective
outward-looking (comparative more outward-looking, superlative most outward-looking)
- Looking towards or thinking about other people, places, or things, rather than towards or about oneself.
- The essence of the outward-looking developing strategy was to make use of the nation's comparative advantage in labor-intensive manufactured goods.1988, Regional Seminar on Licensing and Other Technology Transfer Arrangements
- While the former had moved towards more outward-looking and export-led development strategies by the late seventies and early eighties, the countries of South Asia, by and large, continued to follow a more inward-looking strategy till the eighties.2008 December 4, Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur, Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume II: Society, Institutions, and Development, →ISBN, page 401
Forms of outward-looking
| comparative | more outward-looking |
|---|---|
| superlative | most outward-looking |
Words formed from outward-looking
Questions about outward-looking
- What does outward-looking mean?
- Outward-looking means looking towards or thinking about other people, places, or things, rather than towards or about oneself.
- What part of speech is outward-looking?
- Outward-looking is an adjective.
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