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    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.”

    花得比(對方)多;花費超過

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組成out- + spend. The prefix out- here means “more than”; spend is the ordinary verb for using money.

同家族的字

  • spendthe base verb: to use money
  • outdosame out- meaning “more than / better than”

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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/

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    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.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。