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outperform

[ out-per-fawrm ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than:

    a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.



outperform

/ ˌʊٱəˈɔː /

verb

  1. to perform better than (someone or something)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of outperform1

First recorded in 1955–60; out- + perform
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The effects will undermine the competitiveness of companies that were once the envy of the world as foreign manufacturers outperform them and continue to chip away at U.S. market share.

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Professional investors might react more, as their job may be to try to outperform market indexes, for example, but the average individual might be best served by continuing to buy and hold, rather than overtrading.

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When you compare apples to apples, public schools, on average, have long outperformed charter schools.

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While streaming services entered bidding wars for “Friends,” “Seinfeld” and other hit sitcoms of the past, “The Office” quietly outperformed them.

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"Despite the downgrade, we still expect the US economy to outperform the other major advanced economies over the next couple of years," its report added.

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