outgo
Meanings
Plural: outgo, outgoes, outgos, outwent
Noun
- money paid out; an amount spent
- A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
- The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
- The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
- A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
Verb
- be or do something to a greater degree
- To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
- To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
- To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
- To go out, to set forth, to set out.
- To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
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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
Synonyms
departure, efflux, effluxion, exceed, exit, expenditure, issue, outcome, outdistance, outdo, outflow, outgoing, outlay, outmatch, outperform, outrun, outstrip, pass, spending, surmount, surpass
Scrabble Score: 6
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