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outgo

[aut-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

Among sector funds, utilities and energy funds lured inflows worth $498 million and $332 million respectively, but tech and consumer staples saw outgo of $785 million and $571 million respectively.

From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 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

In a general way, a depositor finds his income and his outgo balancing.

From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson

"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

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

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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

But to be more particular, for it is complained that Mr. Coleman has reported chiefly the expensive experiments of gentlemen farmers, my outgoes were,— For a hoe...................................

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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

From One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

Lilly's Memoirs" we have the following account of him:— "Kelly outwent the Doctor—viz., about the elixir and philosopher's stone, which neither he nor his master attained by their own labour and industry.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

If he found himself mistaken, he could not humble himself enough,—but far outwent, in his contrition, what was due to those whom he had offended.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

And the people saw them going, and many knew them, and they ran together there on foot from all the cities, and outwent them.

From His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

Mr. Smith's character grew upon his friends by intimacy, and outwent the strongest prepossessions which had been conceived in his favour.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

No lawyer in New England had laid down such southern "Principles" for foundation of law; he outwent Mr. Sprague.

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

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

Britons, ever pre-eminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau

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 George Saintsbury

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

To a full score; though in so short a span His riper thoughts had purchas'd more of man Than all those worthless livers, which yet quick Have quite outgone their own arithmetic.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

After flirting with the idea of running for outgoing U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Charlie was very outgoing when it came to the youth,” Tedesco said.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

But after unsuccessful pursuits of world class players such as Vinicius Jr and Julian Alvarez, the only new addition in that position was Christos Tzolis, the winger brought in to replace the outgoing Leandro Trossard.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Trump praised his outgoing spokeswoman, saying she had done a "fantastic job" in the role.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ruth had an outgoing personality and was a gifted writer.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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