outgo
outgo Lexical Profile
outgo Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Money paid out or expended; financial expenditure or outlay, especially in contrast to income.
"To balance the household budget, the family needed to ensure that their monthly income exceeded their total outgo."
The act of going out, departing, or flowing outward; an outflow or exit.
"Engineers installed gauges along the canal to measure both the intake and the outgo of water."
• verb
To go beyond, surpass, or excel in movement, performance, or degree.
"The apprentice worked tirelessly until his skill began to outgo that of his master."
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English outgon, from Old English ūtgān ('to go out, issue'), formed from ūt ('out') + gān ('to go'). The financial noun sense of 'expenditure' emerged in the early 17th century as a direct counterpart to 'income'.