outstay

out- +‎ stay

• Rhymes: -eɪ

outstay (third-person singular simple present outstays, present participle outstaying, simple past and past participle outstayed)

1. (transitive) To stay beyond or longer than.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149:

     Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."

• outstay one's welcome

• stay out