outspend
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]outspend (third-person singular simple present outspends, present participle outspending, simple past and past participle outspent)
- (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.