Crossword clues for outgo
outgo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outgo \Out*go"\, v. t. [imp. Outwent; p. p. Outgone; p. pr. & vb. n. Outgoing.]
To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
To circumvent; to overreach. [Obs.]
--Denham.
Outgo \Out"go`\, n.; pl. Outgoes.
That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; --
the opposite of income; as, when one's outgo exceeds one's
income, distress follows quickly.
--Lowell.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act or process of going out. 2 A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. 3 (context business commerce English) an expenditure, cost or outlay. n. 1 The act or process of going out. 2 A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow. 3 (context business commerce English) an expenditure, cost or outlay. vb. 1 (context poetic English) To go out, to set forth. 2 (context archaic English) To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond. 3 To overtake; to travel faster than. 4 To outdo; exceed; surpass.
WordNet
n. money paid out [syn: expenditure, outlay] [ant: income]
v. be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" [syn: surpass, outstrip, outmatch, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform]
Usage examples of "outgo".
The outgoing Premier, Meline, had attempted to deal with the case by denying that any case existed after the rendering of a verdict, but Cavaignac decided to face the issue squarely.
Mark remembered him vividly from his days as a resident at NYCH when the man served as outgoing chairman of the Obstetrics Department prior to retirement.
Since in these I have got the start, and outgone others, neither in gifts shall I be anny whit behind them.
It overvaulted two immense marble platforms, alongside two sets of tracks, one incoming, one outgoing, and that area of the station looked neither new nor proud: already begrimed with soot and shadowed by a permanent pall of smoke hanging under the girdered glass roof.
Hawking realized that to someone looking at the black hole from the safety of afar, the combined effect of this tearing apart of virtual photon pairs, happening over and over again all around the horizon of the black hole, will appear as a steady stream of outgoing radiation.
I presume you have inquired into the causes of this collision, and of the two incoming, outgoing convoys being routed so close together.
Banking for the makeup of the deposit for the day, the letter would be sent to Outgoing Mail for a special letter of thanks with the facsimile signature of Matthew Meadows or John Tinker Meadows so well done it could not be told from an original signature.
Plankin was coming so fast that he outwent even the dwarf, who indeed seemed to pause and totter as it took there the first step, so that the others all broke out around it, and came first to the invisible barrier.
Cheaping Knowe, and thus outwent us while we were fetching that compass to give them the go-by: wherefore I deem that some great man is with them, else had they gone back to town for new orders.
By his marriages Home far outwent such famous charlatans as Cagliostro, Mesmer, and the mysterious Saint Germain the deathless.
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.
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
I was afraid of a young woman and a man past his prime, because they outwent me in imagination.
She was well aware that telemarketing companies deliberately rigged their outgoing phone banks to thwart incoming calls, yet she continued to punch the buttons.
She hesitated then, and touched keys on the workboard to find an outgoing communications channel.