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outside

in various senses, including:

coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing — as in "external trade"
forming or relating to an outside boundary — as in "external walls"
on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete — as in "external appearances"

external = outside (in this case, trade with people and companies in other countries)

external = outside (of the body)

The external walls of the building are made of concrete and are eight inches thick.
External appearances are good, but I don't he real condition.
80% of the country's debt is held externally.
Can she hold to her principles or will she give in to external pressure?
An external, certified audit is required each year.
The phone's camera can be used with external lenses.
What do you do for external backup of your data in case the phone is lost?
Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy.
George Orwell -- 1984

external = outside

By what external standard could you check its judgements?
George Orwell -- 1984
Power over matter — external reality, as you would call it — is not important.
George Orwell -- 1984
But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external.
George Orwell -- 1984
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right.
George Orwell -- 1984
For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.
George Orwell -- 1984
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
George Orwell -- 1984
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
George Orwell -- 1984
When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.
George Orwell -- 1984
There was a small puncture with little evidence of external bleeding.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Sometimes he says we have gone from being IDPs to EDPs—externally displaced persons.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

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