Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To weigh more than.
- transitive verb To be more significant than; exceed in value or importance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To exceed in weight; weigh more or be heavier than; turn the scale against; overweigh; overbalance; surpass in gravity or importance.
- To be too great a burden or task for; over-task.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in weight or value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
exceed inweight ormass . - verb To
exceed inimportance orvalue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb weigh more heavily
- verb be heavier than
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Examples
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Do the benefits of the social bargain outweigh the costs?
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Do the benefits of the social bargain outweigh the costs?
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Once pregnancy has progressed into the second trimester and once children reach puberty, the dangers of food poisoning and foodborne illnesses may again outweigh the mutagenic risks associated with phytochemicals (Flaxman and Sherman in press).
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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"Elizabeth II" as an article title outweigh the disadvantages of the inconsistent naming - sigh.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Living half of your title outweigh the other; till after long and blessed labors, the white stone is given you in the happy land.”
The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880
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The current open-interest configuration for TLT shows some potential resistance at the 85 mark, where open-interest calls outweigh puts by a ratio of more than 2-to-1.
Markets Volatile, Still In A Funk Chris Johnson 2006
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He used to refer with great pleasure to a note from an old friend and fellow-student, the late Professor George Wilson, of Edinburgh, acknowledging a copy of his book in 1857: "Meanwhile, may your name be propitious; in all your long and weary journeys may the _Living_ half of your title outweigh the other; till after long and blessed labors, the white _stone_ is given you in the happy land."
The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie 1859
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You usually argue that restrictions of civil liberties are warranted whenever the benefit to be derived from those restrictions in terms of increased security "outweigh" the cost to society of limiting the rights.
Geoffrey R. Stone: "Not a Suicide Pact": A Stone-Posner Conversation 2008
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Mad Max too, but the dangers of that kind of outweigh the coolness.
ShoutWire.com 2010
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Mad Max too, but the dangers of that kind of outweigh the coolness.
ShoutWire.com 2010
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