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out-group

Definition of out-group

noun

  • 1 Sociology those people who do not belong to a specific in-group.
  • 2 Biology a group of organisms not belonging to the group whose evolutionary relationships are being investigated. Such a group is used for comparison, to assess which characteristics of the group being studied are more widely distributed and may therefore be older in origin.

out-group in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of out-group in the US English dictionary