outgo

Meaning

Verb

1. To go further than (someone or something); to exceed, to go beyond, to surpass.
2. (obsolete) To experience, go through, or undergo (something).
3. (obsolete) To travel faster than (someone or something); to outstrip, to overtake.
4. To go out, to set forth, to set out.
5. (obsolete) To go too far; to overextend or overreach.

Noun

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

Concepts

outgo

expenditure

outlay

expense

outdo

disbursement

payment

cost

surpass

outmatch

outstrip

spending

excel

exceed

outperform

surmount

expenses

charge

departure

costs

outgoing

defrayment

pay

payoff

disburse

beat

beat out

best

carry

conquer

have the best

letter

lick

outplay

overcome

pip

prevail

quell

sack

scoop

shell

take

transcend

triumph

trounce

vanquish

win

consumption

Hyphenated as

out‧go

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ/

Etymology

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.
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