outperform

verb

out·​per·​form ˌau̇t-pər-ˈfȯrm How to pronounce outperform (audio)
ˌau̇t-pə-
outperformed; outperforming; outperforms

transitive verb

: to perform better than
Today a kid who flips burgers can save enough money to buy a motorcycle that will outperform all but a couple of pricey sports cars.James R. Petersen

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European shares surged in the first half of the year, massively outperforming stocks on Wall Street — but market watchers are divided on the potential for the trend to continue. Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 1 July 2025 This is because its smaller-ticket items which have been outperforming, tend to yield higher margins. John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 Microsoft's new model-agnostic MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) achieved 85.5 percent diagnostic accuracy—outperforming generalist physicians, who reached the correct diagnosis 20 percent of the time, on average. Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 Other European indexes have made more modest gains but still are outperforming the U.S., with the FTSE 100 up 8%. Jason Ma, Fortune, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for outperform

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of outperform was in 1937

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“Outperform.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outperform. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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