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outgo

UK/ˈaʊtɡəʊ/ US/ˈaʊtˌɡoʊ/ uncommon archaic obsolete rare
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

money paid out

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verb

1.

be or do something to a greater degree

  • “her performance surpasses that of any other student I know”
  • “She outdoes all other athletes”
  • “This exceeds all my expectations”
  • “This car outperforms all others in its class”
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Origin

PIE word *úd The verb is derived from Middle English outgon (“to go out, depart, leave; to come out, emerge; to escape; to protrude; of a sword: to be drawn; to emanate from (a place); to accompany”), from Old English ūtgān (“to go out”), Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān (“to go out”), equivalent to out- + go. See also go out. Compare Middle English outwenden (“to go out, depart, leave; to escape; to be emitted, fly out from; of a weapon: to be drawn”), which, like modern outgo, had the past tense and past participle form outwent. The noun is derived from modern English out- (prefix meaning ‘away from; toward the outside of’) + go. Sense 1 (“cost, expenditure, or outlay”) was probably modelled on income. Cognates * Scots outgae * West Frisian útgean * Dutch uitgaan * German Low German utgahn * German ausgehen * Swedish utgå

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