outgo
IPA: ˈaʊtgoʊ
noun
- (countable, business, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
- (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
- (archaic or obsolete)
- (countable) The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
- (uncountable, rare) A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
verb
- (transitive)
- (archaic) To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
- (obsolete)
- To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
- To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
- (intransitive)
- (archaic except poetic and Britain, regional) To go out, to set forth, to set out.
- (obsolete) To go too far; to overextend or overreach.
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Examples of "outgo" in Sentences
- The people are confident and outgoing.
- One is outgoing, the other is introverted.
- Psmith, by contrast, is outgoing and garrulous.
- The outgoing hand must choose the way to approach.
- The first meeting is presided by the outgoing speaker.
- Palmer was a guarantor of the outgoing Stephen's safety.
- The Nubian temperament is sociable, outgoing, and vocal.
- Into the breach stepped the outgoing lieutenant governor.
- Chibiusa is usually very upbeat, extroverted and outgoing.
- Cheerful and outgoing, and longing to see the outside world.
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