Outnumber

Quick meaning: Outnumber is a verb meaning (transitive, stative) To be more in number than somebody or something.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

Women outnumbered men by two to one.

Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.

When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.

The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge. The crowd grew to more than 50 people within the hour, many draped in keffiyehs and hoisting Palestinian flags high above their heads.

Word Forms

• outnumbers
• outnumbering
• outnumbered

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