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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

Data for commodities funds showed, gold and precious metal funds recorded a sixth weekly outflow, valued at $382 million, while energy funds had a marginal outgo of $48 million.

From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 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 the outgo of this activity should do more than merely reduce pressure, as the escape of steam from a safety valve.

From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler

"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

Why," she said, "I suppose that some old-fashioned people still do their marketing, and people that have to look to their outgoes, and know what every mouthful costs them.

From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by William Dean Howells

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

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

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

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.]

And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

From Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark by

But being much given up to women, and an idle habit of life, his expenses quickly outwent his profits, and thus in the space of some months reduced him to downright want.

From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward

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

From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

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

From 1492 by Mary Johnston

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

And now for some reflections upon popes, cardinals, and bishops, who in pomp and splendour have almost equalled if not outgone secular princes.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

This downright fighting fool, this thick-skulled hero,   This blunt, unthinking instrument of death,   With plain dull virtue has outgone my wit.

From All for Love Or, the World Well Lost A Tragedy by John Dryden

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

Paramount disclosed the appointment of Kreiz, the outgoing CEO of Mattel, last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Warner’s outgoing chief executive Zaslav will leave with a golden parachute valued at about $887 million, which includes cash, stock and options valued at more than $550 million, according to regulatory filings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The outgoing secretary-general, Antonio Guterres of Portugal, ends his second five-year term on December 31, 2026.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Exit polls conducted by Manx Radio predict seven outgoing MHKs will lose their seats, three of whom are current members of the Council of Ministers.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Censors read all incoming and outgoing mail, to ensure it contained no secret information.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin




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