outdoor

CEFRB1

/aʊtˈdɔː/

adjective

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01
adjective
Happening or used outside a building.
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adjective
Extra detail
Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Rugby is an outdoor game.
Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.

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Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 395
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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