outgo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: PIE word
 *úd
The verb is derived from Middle English outgon (“to go out, depart, leave; to come out, emerge; to escape; to protrude; of a sword: to be drawn; to emanate from (a place); to accompany”), from Old English ūtgān (“to go out”), Proto-West Germanic *ūtgān (“to go out”), equivalent to out- + go. See also go out.
Compare Middle English outwenden (“to go out, depart, leave; to escape; to be emitted, fly out from; of a weapon: to be drawn”), which, like modern outgo, had the past tense and past participle form outwent.
The noun is derived from modern English out- (prefix meaning ‘away from; toward the outside of’) + go. Sense 1 (“cost, expenditure, or outlay”) was probably modelled on income.
Cognates
* Scots outgae
* West Frisian útgean
* Dutch uitgaan
* German Low German utgahn
* German ausgehen
* Swedish utgå
Base: go
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outgos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outgoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½.
The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo; as if, after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
[T]he word "income" means, as already shown, that which has come in, and not that which might have come in, but did not. If expenditure means what has been paid out, or outgoes, then income means what has come in, or receipts.
Net income ('profits') is the difference between income and outgo.
Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo.
Under a refinancing scheme, initiated by the Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation (ARDC), banks which refinance the construction of godowns for FCI [Food Corporation of India] are to be refinanced up to 80% of their outgos.
Your revenues and your outgos, then, are not the same.
By the early 1980s the outgos to the fund were huge and the Government of India started looking for ways to reduce the fertilizer subsidies.
gloss: The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Once again, after establishing an equally obvious fact, I succeeded in wringing from her the reluctant admission, "It depends," but she was so shattered by the bulk and force of this outgo, so fearful that in some way she had imperiled her life or reputation, so anxious concerning the effect that her unwilling testimony might have upon unborn generations, that she was of no real service the rest of the day.
The stately Votaress, with her towering funnels lost in the upper night, was running well inshore under a point, wrapped in a world-wide silence broken only by the placid outgo of her own vast breath, the soft rush of her torrential footsteps far below, and the answering rustle of the nearer shore.
I suppose you have been getting a lot of deliveries and no outgoes. Is that about the size of it?
Thus the industry in Massachusetts subsists on a constant influx of cloth and outgo of garments which pass through the hands of the stitching contractors for an essential operation.
The resulting output signal served as the reference that the measured heat inputs and outgos attempted to match.
In the case of those nutrient elements, such as N and S, which occur predominantly in organic combination, measurement of the balance between atmospheric inputs and drainage outgoes may indicate may indicate the degree of control or relative leakiness of the ecosystem, provided due allowance is made for short-term fluctuations that could be meaningless.
gloss: The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
obsolete
examples: The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters.
Of course the fact is not overlooked that the outgos of main drain traps are not usually ventilated against syphonage, but they afford an excellent example of a trap on a nearly horizontal pipe.
gloss: A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
obsolete
rare
uncountable
examples: It cannot be doubted that the same persons are here meant as are spoken of in the preceding chapter, for their scorn was the outgo of the same frivolous mind which is there said to distinguish them.
In these experiments it is necessary to take account not only of the food eaten, but of the actual amount of this food which is used by the body. […] Estimates of the solids, liquids, and gases given off from his body must be obtained, for to carry out the experiment an exact balance must be made between the income and the outgo.
And the arms of the scale of intake and outgo must likewise remain at level, and they do so maintain balance in health.
Related words: outgoing
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