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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outspend
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Gingrich had consistently outspent rival candidates.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Unemployed or still at school, often unaccustomed to budget discipline, young people now have unprecedented opportunities to outspend their means.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outspend

Outspend \Out"spend`\, v. t.

  1. To spend more than.

  2. To spend to exhaustion; to spend more than the limits of; as, he outspent the entire discretionary fund halfway through the year.

Outspend

Outspend \Out"spend`\, n. Outlay; expenditure. [R.]

A mere outspend of savageness.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outspend

mid-15c., "to consume totally, use up," from out (adv.) + spend (v.). Meaning "to spend more than another or others" is from 1840. Related: Outspent; outspending. Outspent is attested from 1650s as "exhausted."

Wiktionary
outspend

vb. To spend more than some limit or than another entity.

Usage examples of "outspend".

It was too early yet to predict the full impact of the media blitz he and his fellows were planning, but so far their closely coordinating candidates were on a pace to outspend their less organized opponents by a margin of almost two to one.

And by teatime Lorna and Mame were gleefully trying to outspend each other.

Politically and militarily things are certainly going their way, thanks in no small measure to some incredibly stupid moves by us -- such as no-win war policies, gigantic loans and food shipments -- allowing them both to feed their people and to outspend us on defense.

We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.

We two will sink on the wide waves of ruin, Even as a vulture and a snake outspent Drop, twisted in inextricable fight, Into a shoreless sea.

The gun lobby outspent, outorganized, outfought, and outdemagogued them.

Whitman that to judge from the size of the Wolverine force and the type and number of weapons purchased for it, Becker must have far outspent the budget he had agreed to for the project at its outset.

I myself will ascend to Olympos where once we ruled and drag this empty thing down to hell, even as a vulture and a snake outspent drop, twisted in inexplicable fight.

They would not be outspending us in the effort to build space cities unless they expected huge returns.

The Army's got the President's ear, and the world's greatest minds working on it, and they're outspending us a million dodars to one.