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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outgo.

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Examples

  • So that all the pecuniary outgoes, excepting for washing and mending, which for the most part were done out of the house, and their bills have not yet been received — and these are all and more than all the ways by which money necessarily goes out in this part of the world — were

    Walden 2004

  • But to be more particular, for it is complained that Mr. Coleman has reported chiefly the expensive experiments of gentlemen farmers, my outgoes were, —

    Walden 2004

  • He never questioned pecuniary outgoes — seldom worried as to the state of his bank-account so long as there was plenty.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • The three outgoes already exceed the various inflows.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Let's see what Harry Welch was warning us about with his red outgoes.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • Indies have not made Spain rich, because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

    How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

  • I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world.

    On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

  • The Indies have not made Spain rich; because her outgoes are greater than her incomes.

    One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

  • On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

  • He never questioned pecuniary outgoes -- seldom worried as to the state of his bank-account so long as there was plenty.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

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