outbuild

From out- +‎ build.

outbuild (third-person singular simple present outbuilds, present participle outbuilding, simple past and past participle outbuilt)

1. (transitive) To build more or better than.
   • 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “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.

   • 2011 January 29, “The President's Weekly Address”, in Govinfo‎^[2]:

     That’s what companies like Orion are doing, and that’s how America will win the future: by outinnovating, outeducating, and outbuilding our competitors.

   • 2011 June 25, “The President's Weekly Address”, in Govinfo‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2025 January 14, Pete Hegseth, quotee, “TO CONDUCT A CONFIRMATION HEARING ON THE EXPECTED NOMINATION OF MR. PETER B. HEGSETH TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE”, in United States Senate‎^[4]:

     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.

• build out, buildout