OUTGO (outgone, outwent)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: outgone    , outwent   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does outgo mean? 

• OUTGO (noun)
  The noun OUTGO has 1 sense:

1. money paid out; an amount spent

  Familiarity information: OUTGO used as a noun is very rare.

• OUTGO (verb)
  The verb OUTGO has 1 sense:

1. be or do something to a greater degree

  Familiarity information: OUTGO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money paid out; an amount spent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending

Hypernyms ("outgo" is a kind of...):

transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outgo"):

expense (money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer)

transfer payment (a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services)

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

Antonym:

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

• OUTGO (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outgo    ... he / she / it outgoes   
Past simple: outwent   
Past participle: outgone   
-ing form: outgoing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be or do something to a greater degree

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass

Context example:

This car outperforms all others in its class

Hypernyms (to "outgo" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outgo"):

outwear (last longer than others)

outmarch (march longer distances and for a longer time than)

shame (surpass or beat by a wide margin)

outfox (outdo someone in trickery)

out-herod (surpass someone in cruelty or evil)

outbrave (be braver than)

outweigh (be heavier than)

outrange (have a greater range than (another gun))

outshine (attract more attention and praise than others)

better; break (surpass in excellence)

outpace (surpass in speed)

outsell (be sold more often than other, similar products)

outsell (sell more than others)

outdraw (draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight)

outsail (sail faster or better than)

outroar (roar louder than)

outcry; outshout (shout louder than)

outgrow (grow faster than)

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The process by which the equilibrium temperature of the earth is increased due to presence of gases in the atmosphere that absorb outgoing longwave radiation.

(Greenhouse effect, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget" — incoming energy from the sun compared to outgoing heat energy.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

Fortunately, Mars in Sagittarius will help you stay on top of your finances, so this month may be the end of the heavy-duty outgo from your account.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Any one of the gases found in the atmosphere (including CO[SUB]2[/SUB], H[SUB]2[/SUB]O, CH[SUB]4[/SUB]) that act to allow short wave radiation from the sun to reach the earth, but which absorbs outgoing long wave radiation from the earth surface.

(Greenhouse gases, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)