outearn
verb
out·earn ˌau̇t-ˈərn 
outearned; outearning; outearns
transitive verb
: to earn more money or a higher income than
Inevitably, more of them will outearn their husbands.
Kim Clark
Kim Clark
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Joanna Syrda, an assistant economics professor at the University of Bath School of Management in England, recently studied over 6,000 heterosexual North American married households in which wives outearn husbands. Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022 Numbers show that, generation by generation, people are becoming less and less likely to outearn their parents. Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 16 June 2021 Over 64% of mothers are co- or primary breadwinners, defined as married or unmarried women who either outearn their partners or bring home at least a quarter of the household's income through their wages. Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020 By way of comparison, bachelor’s-degree holders outearn high-school grads by something like a million dollars over the course of their lives. The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020 More women outearn their husbands, which causes friction for millennial couples. Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020 Today, BofA not only outearns Wells—which has been bedeviled by the fallout from its aggressive sales culture—but the former’s valuation is more than $100 billion higher, at $325 billion. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020 The racial wage gap is smaller, for example, in state and local governments, and in some places more educated black workers outearn white ones. Bryce Covert, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2019 Separate research by Chetty and several collaborators shows that, while Americans born in 1940 had a 92 percent chance of outearning their parents, those born four decades later had just a 50/50 chance. BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019 See More
Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022 Numbers show that, generation by generation, people are becoming less and less likely to outearn their parents. Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 16 June 2021 Over 64% of mothers are co- or primary breadwinners, defined as married or unmarried women who either outearn their partners or bring home at least a quarter of the household's income through their wages. Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020 By way of comparison, bachelor’s-degree holders outearn high-school grads by something like a million dollars over the course of their lives. The Editors, National Review, 19 Nov. 2020 More women outearn their husbands, which causes friction for millennial couples. Ashley Shaffer, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020 Today, BofA not only outearns Wells—which has been bedeviled by the fallout from its aggressive sales culture—but the former’s valuation is more than $100 billion higher, at $325 billion. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2020 The racial wage gap is smaller, for example, in state and local governments, and in some places more educated black workers outearn white ones. Bryce Covert, Longreads, 24 Sep. 2019 Separate research by Chetty and several collaborators shows that, while Americans born in 1940 had a 92 percent chance of outearning their parents, those born four decades later had just a 50/50 chance. BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1918, in the meaning defined above
- came down with
- came forward
- came from
- came in
- came in on
- came into one's own
- came off
- came off (as)
- came off as
- came on
- came on to
- came out
- came out of
- came out with
- came over
- came right down to the wire
- came round
- came through
- came to
- came to grief
- came to grips with
- came to pass
- came to terms
- came together
- came under