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What does outstay mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To stay beyond or longer than.
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As he had entered the office first, it was in order for me to outstay him, which I did.
But there may be stronger forces pulling at CEOs to outstay their usefulness.
It doesn't outstay its welcome and rather than wind down at the end it just stops abruptly.
Thousands of visitors outstay their visas and disappear into the anonymity of the multi-ethnic suburbs that surround most French towns.
Some of the band's endless jams have as many false endings as a Lord of the Rings movie, but Matthews and co did not outstay their welcome.
It's funny, plausible, harmless, yet spiky with hints of danger, and it doesn't outstay its welcome.

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