outnumber

From out- +‎ number.

• IPA^(key): /aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/

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outnumber (third-person singular simple present outnumbers, present participle outnumbering, simple past and past participle outnumbered)

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

   Women outnumbered men by two to one.

   • 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railways: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:

     There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety of duties.

   • 1999 January 10, Edward Said, “The One-State Solution”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     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.

   • 2007 October 14, Frank Rich, “The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

   • 2013, Brian Hurwitz, “Healthcare Serial Killings: Was the Case of Dr Harold Shipman Unthinkable?”, in Danielle Griffiths, Andrew Sanders, editors, Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law (Cambridge Bioethics and Law), volumes 2 (Medicine, Crime and Society), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

     The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in Shipman's case, a factor of ${\displaystyle (240-15)/15=15)}$, a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.