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Meaning of outbuild | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To build more or better than.

transitive

Examples

““Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.”
“That’s what companies like Orion are doing, and that’s how America will win the future: by outinnovating, outeducating, and outbuilding our competitors.”
“But they also have a broader mission. It's to renew the promise of American manufacturing, to help make sure America remains in this century what we were in the last, a country that makes things, a country that outbuilds and outinnovates the rest of the world.”
“We are being completely outbuilt in terms of ships, by the Chinese, and yet this Secretary of the Navy has been focused on climate change, not building ships and lethality.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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