Revenues . . . as well outstanding as collected.
--A. Hamilton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Conspicuously excellent; markedly superior; distinguished.
[PJC]
3. So prominent so as to attract notice; conspicuous; usually but not always in a good sense. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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