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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To spend beyond the limits of.
  • transitive verb To outdo in spending.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To surpass in outlay; spend more money than.
  • noun Outlay; expenditure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To spend more than.
  • transitive verb To spend to exhaustion; to spend more than the limits of.
  • noun rare Outlay; expenditure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To spend more than some limit or than another entity.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

out- + spend

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