outgo
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Our outgo is a small fraction of these figures.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, growth funds witnessed about $1.95 billion worth of net outgo.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2023
Investors jettisoned taxable bond funds worth $10.25 billion marking the largest outflow since Feb. 16, while municipal funds recorded capital outgo of $4.39 billion.
From Reuters ● Apr. 18, 2022
The federal budget is a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures, an anticipation of federal income and outgo, during the next fiscal year.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
To secure the service of a horse, there must be an outgo of wealth in its purchase price and in its harness and the vehicle.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott
"States need to contain and rationalise their subsidy outgoes, so that such spending does not crowd out more productive expenditure."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.'
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
The Indies have not made Spain rich because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, etc., $14.72-1/2.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
If he pays for his income, why not for his outgoes?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 by Various
Yes, but all Was vainely labour'd in me; you outwent me, Nor could my wishes reach you; yet a little I did by imitation.
From The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
I knew her for my equal mentally; in so many things she was beyond comparison cleverer than I; her courage outwent mine.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Indeed, we cannot say that at all points Shakspere outwent his guide.
From Montaigne and Shakspere by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
This brave old lady's idea of Toleration outwent even Burton's, and corresponded more with that absolute idea of Toleration which had been worked out among the Baptists.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
As a bird that had been frighted from its nest, my affections outwent my haste, and hovered round my little fireside with all the rapture of expectation.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
As they parted in the riotous dawn, Mario gave Lauro's city soccer team a $200,000 South American soccer player in token of friendship, and the mayor, not to be outgone, promised Mario a yacht.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Lyly nor any of our late nineteenth-century "stylists" has outgone, perhaps none has touched, Eustathius in euphuism.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
Nickleby's success had so far outgone even the expectation raised by Pickwick's, that, without some handsome practical admission of this fact at the close, its publishers could hardly hope to retain him.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
The outgone tenant's bedsteads and wash-hand-stands are piled up against the wall as if crying to Heaven for vengeance against the oppressor.
From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard H. Becker
But I have outgone my destiny in living, to stay here the survivor of my child.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Stillman became a councillor for the West Hampstead ward earlier this year and is the outgoing chairman of Camden Liberal Democrats.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the commission's outgoing chair Alun Francis criticised the decision, adding that class was a "messy concept around which to organise policy".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Postal workers would then check samples from large batches of outgoing ballots against that information before accepting them for delivery.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Clark, known for being social and outgoing, has interacted with politicians and potential investors on behalf of Amodei, chatting with them and bringing them over to meet her bookish husband at conferences and events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Almost on crossing the Ohio line it seemed to me that people were more open and more outgoing.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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