outwith

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Outside; beyond; outside of.Examples: "All at once he’d wanted to buy a place there, but it had been too isolated for his wife – and outwith their means anyway."; "2004, Official Journal of the European Union, 24.7.2004, C190/10, reporting on a judgment of the European Court of Justice. Finally, the Court failed to examine, and thus to show, in what way such differentiated treatment is objectively justified. The fact that it is the result of circumstances outwith the control of the Communities does not constitute such justification […] ."; "It is not acceptable to have EU-US deals on extradition, information collection and exchange, and border controls which are cooked up in secret and outwith the democratic control of the European and national parliaments."Scotland