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noun
A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: archaic except India
Topics: business
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Synonyms: outgoing
Antonyms: income, receipts, takings
noun
The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: departure, efflux, exit, outflow
Antonyms: arrival, entrance, incoming, inflow, ingoing, influx
noun
The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, obsolete, rare, uncountable
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Synonyms: effluxion, issue, outcome
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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Synonyms: outdo
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: outdistance, outrun, pass
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To go out, to set forth, to set out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, regional
Qualifier: archaic except poetic and UK
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
money paid out; an amount spent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: spending, expenditure, outlay
Antonyms: income
Broader terms: transferred property, transferred possession
Narrower terms: cost, expense, transfer payment
verb
be or do something to a greater degree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: surpass, outstrip, outmatch, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Narrower terms: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent, outgrow, outshout, outcry, outroar, outsail, outdraw, outsell, outpace, better, break, outshine, outrange, outweigh, outbrave, out-herod, shame, outmarch, outwear
History
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
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
