external
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstɜːnəl/ uscoming from outside a company, organization, or country:
an external applicant/candidate
external developments/events/forces A number of external developments help to explain why the country's economy under-performed compared to others.
External demand for the products of industrial countries may decline in the longer term.
IT
used to describe equipment that connects to the outside of a computer:
Use an external hard drive to back up your entire system.
externally
adverb uk/ɪkˈstɜːnəli/ us/-ˈstɝː-/
externally funded research
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