OUTPERFORMANCE OPTION

When a buyer is paid off based on how much better the market does than the strike price.

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OUTPLACEMENT

The means by which a company helps recently laid off employees find alternative employment. Typically involves the commission of an outside agency, paid for by the company doing the laying off.

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OUTPLANT

Facility that is far from the main plant.

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OUTFANGTHEF

A liberty or privilege in the ancient common law, whereby a lord was enabled to call any man dwelling in his manor, and taken for felony in another place out of his fee, to judgment in his own court Du Cange.

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OUTLINE SPECIFICATIONS

An initial set of specifications, upon which more detailed specifications are based later in the design process.

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OUTFIT

1. An allowance made by the United States government to one of its dip- lomatic representatives going abroad, for the expense of his equipment 2. This term, in its original use, as applying to ships, embraced those objects conuect- ed with a ship which were necessary for the sailing of her, and without which she would not in fact be navigable. But in ships engaged in whaling voyages the word has acquired a much more extended signification. Macy v. Whaling Ins. Co., 9 Mete. ((Mass.) 364.

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OUTFLOWS

Transferring money from one account to another, to pay for products or services.

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OUTGO

Operating costs that exceed income generation.

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OUTHOUSE

Any house necessary for the purposes of life, in which the owner does not make his constant or principal residence, is an outhouse. State v. O’Brien, 2 Root (Conn.) 516. A smaller or subordinate building connected with a dwelling, usually detached from it and standing at a little distance from it, not intended for persons to live in, but to serve some purpose of convenience or necessity; as a barn, a dairy, a toolhouse, and the like.

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