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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

Data showed commodity funds lost $1.3 billion in outflows in their first weekly net selling in six weeks, with precious metal funds and energy funds recording $527 million and $281 million worth of outgo, respectively.

From Reuters Mar. 3, 2023

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

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

Money came in lavishly at times, but the outgo had to be enormous; it was as the essential bread upon the waters that insured its own return a hundredfold.

From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting

"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

On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various

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 O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller

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 Samuel Johnson

This thirty years' war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this life-long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts millions of housekeepers.

From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

They met all together in the creek where the two brigantines were which outwent their fellows.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]

Indeed, we cannot say that at all points Shakspere outwent his guide.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

But the ardor of his mind was such that he outwent his authors.

From 1492 by Mary Johnston

At the time, however, of which we are speaking, his ambition of distinction far outwent both his powers and opportunities of attaining it.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

It was not so in the sixteenth, when Italy hardly yet fell behind, and Spain and England far outwent her: nor, according to any just estimate, in the seventeenth.

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

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

In his 'Ode on St. Cecilia's Day' Pope is generally confessed to have miscarried; yet he has miscarried only as compared with Dryden, for he has far outgone other competitors.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker

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 Arthur B. Fuller

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 Julia Ward Howe

Postal workers would then check samples from large batches of outgoing ballots against that information before accepting them for delivery.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The changing-of-command ceremony was memorable, including 17-gun salutes for each of the outgoing and incoming admirals and a 19-gun salute for my new friend, the CNO.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Arsenal signed Christos Tzolis from Club Brugge to replace the outgoing Leandro Trossard, with the 24-year-old producing a remarkable 22 goals and 29 assists in all competitions last season for the Belgian club.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Growing up she was the gorgeous outgoing risk-taker with ringlet hair.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Almost on crossing the Ohio line it seemed to me that people were more open and more outgoing.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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