outgo
Americannoun
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outgoes
plural
verb (used with object)
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outgoes,
present (3rd person singular)
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outwent,
past
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outgone,
past participle
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outgoing
present participle
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to go beyond; outdistance.
to outgo the minimum rquirements.
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to surpass, excel, or outdo.
Each child was encouraged to outgo the others.
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Archaic. to go faster than; excel in speed.
verb
noun
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cost; outgoings; outlay
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something that goes out; outflow
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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outgosimple
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outgoessimple
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have outgoneperfect
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has outgoneperfect
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am outgoingprogressive
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are outgoingprogressive
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is outgoingprogressive
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have been outgoingperfect progressive
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has been outgoingperfect progressive
Past
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outwentsimple
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had outgoneperfect
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was outgoingprogressive
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were outgoingprogressive
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had been outgoingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of outgo
Example Sentences
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Taiwanese equities faced outflows worth $41.6 billion last year, leading the regional sales, while India and South Korea witnessed an outgo of $15.4 billion and $9.6 billion, respectively.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2023
Commodities funds' data showed precious metal funds suffered outflows of $354 million in a ninth straight week of net selling, while energy funds had a second weekly outgo, although a marginal $5 million.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2022
The federal budget is a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures, an anticipation of federal income and outgo, during the next fiscal year.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
There was nobody in the country who could outgo him on a hunt.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
They are not farre assunder: a curst wife Is evermore mans worst aflyctyon, And shee that outgoes myne in bytternes May fryght the whole worlde.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
The love of women in spirituals, as well as naturals, ofttimes outgoes that of men.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
My whole income from the farm was $ 23.44 Deducting the outgoes............
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
This thirty years' war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this life-long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts millions of housekeepers.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
According to Baillie, also, the Baptists outwent even the Brownists in the power in church matters they gave to women.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
And already, in independent judgment on the traditional doctrines of the Church, he not only kept pace with Luther but even outwent him.
From Life of Luther by Julius Koestlin
In his play he outwent all his comrades in throwing balls, and in running and leaping and putting stones and racing horses.”
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
A troop of infantry, whose dapper costume outwent itself in the last touch of bright green gloves, dazzled by, and then came a miscellany of maskers.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
For me, while some of my friends have thought me exacting, I may say Ossoli has always outgone my expectations in the disinterestedness, the uncompromising bounty, of his every act.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Obviously, and he had some darkness in him; he came back from World War II really scarred, couldn’t really deal with it . . . but he was also a very outgoing guy.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Trump praised his outgoing spokeswoman, saying she had done a "fantastic job" in the role.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Warner’s outgoing chief executive Zaslav will leave with a golden parachute valued at about $887 million, which includes cash, stock and options valued at more than $550 million, according to regulatory filings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Dutch Bros, the fast-growing, drive-through coffee chain known for its colorful drinks and outgoing baristas, has a strategy to attract pedestrian traffic: walk-up-only windows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The floor of the Exchange would erupt into a flurry of trades, runners would spread the word throughout the city, and the price of goods, futures, and shares in outgoing voyages would rise or fall.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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