outspend

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ spend.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈspɛnd/

• Audio (General American):

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Verb

outspend (third-person singular simple present outspends, present participle outspending, simple past and past participle outspent)

1. (transitive) To spend more than some limit or than another entity.

   Statistics show that political candidates who greatly outspend their opponents win more frequently.

   • 2009, Leslie Derfler, Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911, page 143:

     As he admitted, he had been not only outspent and outslandered, but outmaneuvered.

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