outgo
(uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
(uncountable) The act or process of going out; (countable) an instance of this; an outgoing.
Net income ('profits') is the difference between income and outgo.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(countable, business, archaic, except, India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
[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.
Origin: The is derived from , from , , equivalent to . See also go out. Compare , which, like modern outgo, had the and past form outwent. The is derived from modern English . Sense 1 (“cost, expenditure, or outlay”) was probably modelled on income. * * * * * *. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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