outgoings
SayOWT-goh-ingzUS/ˈaʊtˌɡoʊɪŋz/UK/ˈaʊtˌɡəʊɪŋz/
- 1Plural of outgoing. Chiefly British, for money spent; Americans usually say expenses.
Her monthly outgoings exceeded her salary, and the debt slowly grew.
The company tracked all its outgoings in a single spreadsheet.
Note
The plural is where the money meaning lives. Outgoing in the sense of money that leaves one's possession is used in the plural, so outgoings reads as expenditure, outlay or expense: monthly outgoings, household outgoings, outgoings against income. Keep it apart from the adjective outgoing, the sociable one, which can never take an -s, so an -s on this spelling always marks the noun.
outgoings is a form of outgoing
outgoing, noun: Money that leaves someone's possession through spending and payments, usually spoken of in the plural. Full entry
- Forms
- outgoingoutgoings plural
- Spelling
- outgoing → outgoings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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