- 1花得比(對方)多;花費超過
If you outspend someone, you use more money than they do. A shop can outspend another shop on ads. One family can outspend another on a wedding. Papers and business talk like this word; in everyday speech people more often just say they spent more. You outspend a person, a company, or sometimes a plan for money. Though actually the out- here does not mean “outside” — it means “more than.”
組成out- + spend. The prefix out- here means “more than”; spend is the ordinary verb for using money.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
outspendverb/aʊtˈspɛnd/
- 1
To spend more than some limit or than another entity.
- Statistics show that political candidates who greatly outspend their opponents win more frequently.
- As he admitted, he had been not only outspent and outslandered, but outmaneuvered.
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