outgos

Noun

outgo (countable and uncountable, plural outgos or outgoes)

1. (countable, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
   • My farm outgoes for the first season were, for implements, seed, work, &c., $14 72½.1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 60

   Synonyms:

   outgoing

   Antonyms:

   income, receipts, takings

2. (uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
   • 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...1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, “Susanna Crum Couldna Say”, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, part 1st (In Town), page 35

   Synonyms:

   departure, efflux, exit, outflow

   Antonyms:

   arrival, entrance, incoming, inflow, ingoing, influx

3. (archaic, countable, obsolete) The means by which something flows or goes out; an outlet.
   • The great Salt Lake of Utah is its principal body of water, and this has no visible outgo, though richly fed from various quarters.1869, Samuel Bowles, “Introductory Chapter”, in Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. […], Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, page 26
4. (archaic, obsolete, rare, uncountable) A (quantity of a) substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
   • 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.1870, Friedrich Bleek, “The Petrine Epistles”, in William Urwick, transl., edited by Johannes Friedrich Bleek, An Introduction to the New Testament. […] (Clark’s Foreign Theological Library, Fourth...

   Synonyms:

   effluxion, issue, outcome

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