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Outgo   /ˈaʊtgˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Outgo  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.


verb
Outgo  v. t.  (past outwent; past part. outgone; pres. part. outgoing)  
1.
To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
2.
To circumvent; to overreach. (Obs.)





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"Outgo" Quotes from Famous Books



... compensated by the glory of a great many such "spirited charges" as that by which Colonel Pettigrew and his gallant rifles took Fort Pinckney, with its garrison of one engineer officer and its armament of no guns. Soldiers are the most costly of all toys or tools. The outgo for the army of the Pope, never amounting to ten thousand effective men, in the cheapest country in the world, has been half a million of dollars a month. Under the present system, it needs no argument to show that the non-slaveholding States, with a free ...
— The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V - Political Essays • James Russell Lowell


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