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outrate, v.|aʊtˈreɪt|
[f. out- 18 + rate n.1]
trans. a. Sc. To outnumber; to outpace. b. To outscore in the ratings; to surpass or outdo. orig. U.S.
1885‘S. Mucklebackit’ Rural Rhymes 27 They doubly can ootrate the ‘men’. 1903in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 369/1, I was fairly ootrated for he finished an hour afore me. We tried a bicycle run an' I was ootrated by twenty minutes. 1955Sun (Baltimore) (B ed.) 22 Nov. 1/2 (heading) American TV outrates pythons in Cambodia. 1975J. Wyllie Butterfly Flood (1977) xi. 40 A level of noise that outrates the clamour around the bargain counter..at Macy's. 1988High Technol. Business Apr. 28/3 Glenn's system outrates Japan's Muse and leaves Sarnoff's ACTV in the dust. |