outgo

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Synonyms

expenditure

outlay

expense

disbursement

payment

💸

outdo

cost

spending

outstrip

surpass

outmatch

expenses

surmount

outperform

exceed

excel

charge

quell

sack

scoop

shell

🐚

take

transcend

triumph

😤

trounce

vanquish

win

defrayment

costs

best

have the best

beat

beat out

carry

conquer

consumption

departure

disburse

letter

lick

outgoing

outplay

overcome

pay

💸

payoff

pip

prevail

Translations

έξοδο

δαπάνη

superar

overtreffen

Ausgaben

gasto

διέρχομαι

υπερβαίνω

dépense

excéder

uitgaaf

uitgave

τελειώνω

despesa

πληρωμή

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: outgon

Inherited from Old English: ūtgān

Cognate with Middle English: outwenden

Cognate with Scots: outgae

Cognate with Western Frisian: útgean

Cognate with Dutch: uitgaan

Cognate with German: ausgehen

Cognate with Swedish: utgå

In summary

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