outearn

verb

out·earn ˌau̇t-ˈərn

outearned; outearning; outearns

transitive verb

: to earn more money or a higher income than

Inevitably, more of them will outearn their husbands.—

Kim Clark

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Some community college grads can outearn elite university peers June 21, 2023 Some Black and Latino students fear that axing affirmative action will decrease their numbers and make college life even more alienating. —

Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023 Graduates of four-year universities still outearn their peers with only a high school degree and are less likely to face unemployment. —

Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 13 June 2023 This data all stems from the assumption that a powerful woman gets married at all; a census data analysis by researchers at the University of Chicago and the National University of Singapore in 2015 found that fewer people get married in the places where women commonly outearn men. —

Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2022 Marriages in which wives outearn their husbands are not only more common, but less likely to end in divorce than in the past. —

Julia Carpenter, wsj.com, 11 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for outearn