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Etymology

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out- +‎ launch

Verb

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outlaunch (third-person singular simple present outlaunches, present participle outlaunching, simple past and past participle outlaunched)

  1. (transitive) To launch more spacecraft than.
    • 1984, Signals, volume 38, numbers 7-12, page 88:
      But, he warned, the Soviet Union is also aware of the potential of space and has outlaunched the United States by five to one in the past 10 years.