outnumber

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ number.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/

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Verb

outnumber (third-person singular simple present outnumbers, present participle outnumbering, simple past and past participle outnumbered)

1. (transitive, stative) To be more in number than somebody or something.

   Women outnumbered men by two to one.

   • 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railways: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

     There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety of duties.

Translations

be more in number

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• Bulgarian: превъзхождам числено (prevǎzhoždam čisleno)
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  Mandarin: 超過／超过 (zh) (chāoguò)

• Czech: přečíslit
• Dutch: in de meerderheid zijn
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• Finnish: olla enemmän kuin (subject in the partitive plural, object after kuin), olla ylivoima ... vastaan (subject in the adessive plural, object in the partitive plural before vastaan)
• French: être en supériorité numérique
• German: in der Überzahl/Mehrzahl sein, zahlenmäßig überlegen sein
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• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see liczny (pl), przewaga liczebna f
• Portuguese: exceder em número (literally), disparidade (pt)
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• Russian: превосходи́ть численно (prevosxodítʹ čislenno), превосходи́ть численностью (prevosxodítʹ čislennostʹju), превосходи́ть количеством (prevosxodítʹ količestvom), численно превыша́ть (čislenno prevyšátʹ)
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