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plural outhouses
(Canada, US) An outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit. examples
(dated) Any outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building. quotations examples
There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.
1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine
[…] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses
1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg
third-person singular simple present outhouses, present participle outhousing, simple past and past participle outhoused
(transitive) To house in a separate building. quotations examples
In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.
1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)
The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.
1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38