outgoes

noun

plural of outgo
1
as in expenses
a payment made in the course of achieving a result last year the film company's outgoes exceeded its revenues by a wide margin

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2
as in departures
the act of leaving a place the outgo of the town's only remaining manufacturing plant was a disaster

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outgoes
  1. expenses
  2. departures
  3. costs
  4. goings
  5. expenditures
  6. leaves
  7. withdrawals
Noun
  • Viewed this way, protections such as immutable backups and isolated backup networks, often cut for budget reasons, look less like expenses and more like insurance against days of downtime.
    — Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • If a governor does not opt in, that state's taxpayers can still make donations to SGOs and receive the tax credit, but families in that state won't qualify for scholarships or vouchers to pay for educational expenses.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of expenses
Noun
  • Since Sorrells was sworn in, at least 79 assistant district attorneys have resigned, according to a source familiar with the departures.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The Federal Aviation Administration stepped in and capped the number of departures and arrivals.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of departures
Noun
  • The elective program involves reimbursements of certain development costs, as well as code relief for projects that meet certain eligibility standards, said senior planner Ben Rhoads.
    — Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The Post measured affordability by comparing what a basic family budget costs in each county with what households there earn.
    — Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of costs
Noun
  • An array of pillars, permanent marks, the imposing Napoleonic-era Spitbank Fort, as well as the comings-and-goings of ferries and even the hovercraft going back and forth between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 26 July 2026
  • This is somebody who knew intimately the goings on in my family tax and estate planning entities.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 17 July 2026
Definition of goings
Noun
  • According to the district’s chief business officer Gerardo Castillo, Sac City Unified’s initial report included only its 2025-26 expenditures and left out spending from 2024-25.
    — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • However, skeptics are getting more vocal in their concerns that returns on AI investment won't justify the capital expenditures.
    — Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of expenditures
Noun
  • Inside was a tumble of papers, some moldy, some with partial footprints, leaves and twigs interspersed among the pages.
    — Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Like other firs, the needlelike leaves of the oyamel fir grow directly from the branch, and the needles’ bases, which are shaped like suction cups, leave conspicuous circular scars when the leaves fall.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of leaves
Noun
  • Agriculture accounts for around 72% of the world’s freshwater withdrawals, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
    — Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Revolut said on its website that several of its services were partially unavailable, including card payments, topping up balances via bank cards, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of withdrawals
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“Outgoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgoes. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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