# outgo

Pronunciation: say "OWT-goh" US /ˈaʊtˌɡoʊ/, UK /ˈaʊtɡəʊ/

## Noun

1. A cost, expense, or amount of money paid out, especially in business accounts.
   - Simple: Money that a person or business spends or pays out.
   - _The treasurer weighed the club's income against its outgo before planning next year's events._
   - _After rent and wages, the shop's outgoes left almost no profit._
2. The act or process of going out; also a single instance of going out.
   - Simple: The act of going out, or a time when something goes out.
   - _The outgo of the crowd after the match clogged every exit for an hour._
   - _Each outgo of breath fogged the cold window beside her._

## Verb

Pronunciation: say "owt-GOH" US /ˌaʊtˈɡoʊ/, UK /ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ/

3. To go out; to set forth or set out on a journey. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: To go out or set off from a place.
   - _At daybreak the pilgrims outgo toward the distant shrine._
   - _Brave hearts outgo to meet the gathering storm._

## Verb

Pronunciation: say "owt-GOH" US /ˌaʊtˈɡoʊ/, UK /ˌaʊtˈɡəʊ/

4. To go further than someone or something; to exceed or surpass. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To do more or better than another person or thing.
   - _His ambition outgoes his talent by a wide margin._
   - _No scholar of the age could outgo her in learning._
5. To exceed reasonable limits or attempt more than one can manage. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To go too far, or to try to do more than you can.
6. To go faster than someone or something, leaving them behind or passing them. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To move faster than someone or something and get ahead.
   - _Her swift mare outgoes every rider on the moor._
   - _Light ships can outgo a laden galleon with ease._
7. To undergo, experience, or go through something. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To go through or live through something.

## Noun

8. A channel, opening, or other way out through which something flows or passes. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An opening or path that lets something flow out.
   - _Every cistern needs an outgo to prevent overflow._
   - _The mill's outgo carried water back to the river._
9. Whatever has flowed out from a source, or the quantity of it that has flowed out. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Liquid or other matter that has flowed out from somewhere.
   - _The dark outgo from the mine stained the riverbank for miles._
   - _Heavy rain swelled the outgo from the hillside springs._

## Origin

The verb descends from Middle English outgon ('to go out, depart, escape'), from Old English ūtgān and Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān, being essentially out- + go. The noun is formed from out- + go, and the sense of 'cost or expenditure' was probably modelled on 'income'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/outgo (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).