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
  • Mercury opposes Chiron across your personal and shared resource zones, making questions about expenses, debt, or contributions feel more personal than the numbers suggest.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2026
  • To close deals, some US homebuilders are resorting to price cuts and mortgage rate buy downs to attract buyers, squeezing profit margins that are already compressed by high raw material, labor, and financing expenses.
    — , CNBC, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of expenses
Noun
  • The departures show Meta is still shaping its strategy around AI and AI safety amid new calls for regulation in Washington.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For all the uncertainty surrounding the future employment of the University of North Carolina’s football staff, the paperwork governing their departures is already in order.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of departures
Noun
  • But consumers may see some indirect savings on groceries and consumer goods through lower supply-chain costs, as the exemption seeks to lower costs for farmers and truckers.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The best way to get costs down is to end the war in Ukraine and open the Strait of Hormuz that Iran is trying to hold hostage.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 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
  • That was also the takeaway from Wednesday’s cooler-than-expected August personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge.
    — Alexa LoMonaco,Jeff Nash, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Even before these changes, a 2026 Mavvrik survey of 396 organizations found that AI expenditures eroded gross margins at about four out of five enterprises for the second consecutive year.
    — Aruna Veerappan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of expenditures
Noun
  • There's a fittingly witchy gift shop filled with all sorts of tchotchkes and collectibles, including spell books, tarot cards, cups for reading tea leaves, and a selection of history books.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The air is crisp (finally), the leaves are crisp, and the apples are perfect for crisp martinis.
    — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of leaves
Noun
  • The increase in investment withdrawals from some individuals mirrors an increase in transfers to investment accounts from others, according to the research.
    — Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
  • All seemed right in the world until 2008, when Cook discovered that McCauley had been diverting funds for years, forging bank statements and checks and making large withdrawals.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of withdrawals
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“Outgoes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgoes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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