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Outgo

//ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ// noun, verb

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Noun

1
A cost, expenditure, or outlay. countable
"My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½."
2
money paid out; an amount spent wordnet
3
The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing. uncountable
"Once again, after establishing an equally obvious fact, I succeeded in wringing from her the reluctant admission, "It depends," but she was so shattered by the bulk and force of this outgo, so fearful that in some way she had imperiled her life or reputation, so anxious concerning the effect that her unwilling testimony might have upon unborn generations, that she was of no real service the rest of the day."
4
The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet. archaic, countable, obsolete
"The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters."
5
A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. archaic, obsolete, rare, uncountable
"It cannot be doubted that the same persons are here meant as are spoken of in the preceding chapter, for their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind which is there said to distinguish them."

Verb

1
To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass. archaic, transitive
"So then it will alwayes bee found trew, that God outgoeth all our prayers, and all our wiſhes."
2
be or do something to a greater degree wordnet
3
To experience, go through, or undergo (something). obsolete, transitive
"So ſince the vvinged God his planet cleare, / began in me to moue, one yeare is ſpent: / the vvhich doth longer vnto me appeare, / then al thoſe fourty vvhich my life outvvent."
4
To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake. obsolete, transitive
"So trauelling, he chaunſt far off to heed, / A Damzell, flying on a palfrey faſt / Before tvvo Knights, […] Yet fled ſhe faſt, and both them farre outvvent, / Carried vvith vvings of feare, like fovvle aghaſt, / VVith locks all looſe, and rayment all to rent; […]"
5
To go out, to set forth, to set out. intransitive, regional
"I ſawe a ſhole of ſhepheardes outgoe, / With ſinging, and ſhouting, and iolly chere: […]"

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6
To go too far; to overextend or overreach. intransitive, obsolete
"But John / (Our Friend) Molleſſon, / Thought us to have out-gone / VVith a quaint Invention."

Etymology

Etymology 1

PIE word *úd 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

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