Definition of OUTGO

outgo

Plural: outgoes, outgos

Noun

  • money paid out; an amount spent
  • A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
  • The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
  • The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
  • A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.

Verb

Verb Forms: outwent, outgone, outgoing, outgoes

  • To go beyond or surpass in movement or quantity.
  • be or do something to a greater degree
  • To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
  • To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
  • To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
  • To go out, to set forth, to set out.
  • To go too far; to overextend or overreach.

Examples

  • His bold play was designed to outgo his opponent’s current score by a significant margin.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
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The verb is derived from Middle English outgon (“to go out, depart, leave; to come out, emerge; to escape; to protrude; of a sword: to be drawn; to emanate from (a place); to accompany”), from Old English ūtgān (“to go out”), Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān (“to go out”), equivalent to out- + go. See also go out.
Compare Middle English outwenden (“to go out, depart, leave; to escape; to be emitted, fly out from; of a weapon: to be drawn”), which, like modern outgo, had the past tense and past participle form outwent.
The noun is derived from modern English out- (prefix meaning ‘away from; toward the outside of’) + go. Sense 1 (“cost, expenditure, or outlay”) was probably modelled on income.
Cognates
* Scots outgae
* West Frisian útgean
* Dutch uitgaan
* German Low German utgahn
* German ausgehen
* Swedish utgå

Scrabble Score: 6

outgo: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
outgo: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
outgo: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

outgo: valid Words With Friends Word