outgoings

3.5

Regular payments you must make, like rent or bills

noun
/ˈaʊtˌɡoʊɪŋz/

: gastos

I need to keep track of my monthly outgoings so I can budget effectively.

So when I was there I learnt about the outgoings and the expenses and that's what taught me about real life.

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Examples

The company's outgoings include salaries, rent, and utility bills.
She reviewed her outgoings to find ways to save money on unnecessary expenses.
And we go through finances, outgoings, incomings, basically everything.
So when I was there I learnt about the outgoings and the expenses and that's what taught me about real life.

Rob Moore

Synonyms

expense

vsoutgoings

524 2.7

An amount of money spent for work or business

covers regular mandatory payments rather than individual business spending

outlay

vsoutgoings

19 6.9

An amount of money spent on something

focuses on recurring required payments rather than single purchases

outgo

vsoutgoings

1 7.0

Money that a person or company spends

is used for repeated or regular payments like bills or rent

Antonyms

income

∞ 1.2

Money a person or family receives regularly from work and investments

savings

606 1.0

Money put aside, often in a bank, to use later or for emergencies

Surface Forms

outgoings plural

Morphology

outgoings = outgoing (transparent) = out + go + ing + s

The sense 'expenses' is the plural of 'outgoing' (= something that goes out, i.e. an expenditure), so the meaning is directly derived from 'out' + 'go' + '-ing' plus plural '-s'.

Etymology

The word outgoings comes from the parts out and go, giving a simple image of things that 'go out' of your money. So, outgoings are the regular payments that 'leave' your account, like bills or rent.