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
U.S. growth funds faced massive outflows for a third consecutive week, amounting $5.13 billion, while value funds had about $2 billion worth of net outgo.
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022
According to Refinitiv Lipper, investors offloaded global equity funds worth a net $15.21 billion in the reported week, which was the biggest weekly money outgo since Dec 15.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 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
Money came in lavishly at times, but the outgo had to be enormous; it was as the essential bread upon the waters that insured its own return a hundredfold.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
"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
My whole income from the farm was $ 23.44 Deducting the outgoes............
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Any return from his products beyond enough to meet these outgoes he will consider profits.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
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
If he pays for his income, why not for his outgoes?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 by Various
And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran there together on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
This brave old lady's idea of Toleration outwent even Burton's, and corresponded more with that absolute idea of Toleration which had been worked out among the Baptists.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
And the people saw them departing, and many knew Him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto Him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
I knew her for my equal mentally; in so many things she was beyond comparison cleverer than I; her courage outwent mine.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But being much given up to women, and an idle habit of life, his expenses quickly outwent his profits, and thus in the space of some months reduced him to downright want.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
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
And now for some reflections upon popes, cardinals, and bishops, who in pomp and splendour have almost equalled if not outgone secular princes.
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus
To a full score; though in so short a span His riper thoughts had purchas'd more of man Than all those worthless livers, which yet quick Have quite outgone their own arithmetic.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
But this, though not arduous, had outgone his ambition, nature having gifted him with a remarkable power of extracting nourishment from food, which is now called assimilation.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Nickleby's success had so far outgone even the expectation raised by Pickwick's, that, without some handsome practical admission of this fact at the close, its publishers could hardly hope to retain him.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
In July, outgoing prime minister Sir Keir Starmer issued a formal apology to those mothers, telling them: "The shame is not yours... the shame is ours."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The changing-of-command ceremony was memorable, including 17-gun salutes for each of the outgoing and incoming admirals and a 19-gun salute for my new friend, the CNO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The two candidates will face off in the Nov. 3 election to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, and took time to deliver their campaign messages at an afternoon political forum in the state capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The couple formed part of a 99-strong group of guerrillas who struck a deal with outgoing President Gustavo Petro to disband two months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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