Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To exceed the number of; be more numerous than.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in number.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in number.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to be more in number than somebody or something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be larger in number
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some complained that even in the supposedly autonomous prefectures of Qinghai, signs in Chinese outnumber those in Tibetan.
Tibetans hopeful for Dalai Lama's return and help preserving their culture 2010
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As regards the first argument, it is significant that Socrates nowhere in the dialogue admits any case in which the inappropriate elements in a name outnumber the appropriate ones (hence item 19 in the list of etymological principles, section 3 above).
Plato's Cratylus Sedley, David 2006
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On Warren Avenue, where signs in Arabic outnumber those in English, other residents said they doubted the CIA would find many willing recruits in Dearborn.
unknown title 2009
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In fact, in absolute numbers, I'll bet those fleeing the creationism label outnumber the biologists, too.
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In fact, in absolute numbers, I'll bet those fleeing the creationism label outnumber the biologists, too.
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The activity is part of a bullish pattern so far in CIEN, where calls outnumber puts by more than 8 to 1 in the session.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page optionMONSTER 2010
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And while shovelware certainly exists on all three machines, it's definitely most common than on Wii, a platform on which is seems like rudimentary, low-budget shoddier titles outnumber more complex games by multiples.
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Recent data from Thomson Financial gives us an idea of just how blatant that "buy" rating bias is -- analyst buy calls outnumber "sell" calls almost 7 to 1.
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The activity is part of a bullish pattern so far in CIEN, where calls outnumber puts by more than 8 to 1 in the session.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page optionMONSTER 2010
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The activity is part of a bullish pattern so far in CIEN, where calls outnumber puts by more than 8 to 1 in the session.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page optionMONSTER 2010
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