out-statistic

English

Verb

out-statistic (third-person singular simple present out-statistics, present participle out-statisticking, simple past and past participle out-statisticked)

1. Alternative form of outstatistic
   • 1927, United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation, Hospital Building Program, page 146:

     While the bureau with the best of good feeling and the best of faith, I believe, can sometimes out-statistic us, when it comes down to finalities you build more hospitals and they are occupied as fast as you build.

   • 1975, Gerald Green, My Son the Jock, page 77:

     You know we almost out-statisticked them ?

   • 1981, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1982, page 347:

     Your Honor, you have become a budgetary expert. You shouldn't leave now. You can out-statistic any of us.

   • 2011, Shelby Foote, The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville:

     Only in land area — and only then in a special sense — could the South, with its eleven states, out-statistic the twenty-two states of the North: 780,000 square miles as opposed to 670,000 in the area including Texas and the first tier of states west of the Mississippi.