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outgo

[out-goh] / ˈaʊtˌgoʊ /






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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

But also it means a certain small outgo from the Assembly," was the reply; "there's the rub.

From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

"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

But, when it was completed, the old story had been told again, of expenses going far beyond expectations, and, instead of anticipated rest, toil and struggle to pay debts, and provide for constant outgoes.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Bolton, Sarah K.

My whole income from the farm was $ 23.44 Deducting the outgoes............

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

We should, therefore, have little superfluity in the most favourable seasons; for the farmer, like the rest of mankind, acts in hope of success, and the harvest seldom outgoes the expectation of the spring.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.'

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)

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 Chadwick, G. A.

The cutter Was as another Nature, dumb; outwent her, Motion and breath left out.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

And already, in independent judgment on the traditional doctrines of the Church, he not only kept pace with Luther but even outwent him.

From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius

And he unknit the peace-strings from about Boardcleaver, and drew him forth so that a clear humming noise went forth into the sunlit air, and spurred on so hard that he outwent every man there.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

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

Of his Moses she says: "It is the only thing in Europe so far which has entirely outgone my hopes."

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

It is the only thing in Europe, so far, which has entirely outgone my hopes.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.

But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

The new leader takes over from the unpopular Keir Starmer just two years after the outgoing prime minister led Labour to power in a landslide election victory after 14 years of Conservative rule.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

She is outgoing and active and enjoys surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and volunteering at a farm once a week, Walker said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The most critical holdouts so far are two outgoing senators, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

Brighton-born Lawrence was presented with the silver laureate medal by the outgoing children's laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce at a ceremony in London earlier.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

When he took the job, the only piece of advice he was given by the outgoing superintendent was never to promise anyone Permian season tickets.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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