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Outlay definition

outlā
outlaid outlaying outlays
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The spending or disbursement of money.

The weekly outlay on groceries.

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Outlay is what's been used up or spent.

An example of outlay is the energy used while digging a hole.

An example of outlay is the amount of money spent on your daughter's prom.

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An amount spent; an expenditure.
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To spend or disburse (money).
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A spending (of money, energy, etc.)
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Money, etc. spent.
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To spend (money)
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A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
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The spending of money, or an expenditure.

Without too much outlay you could buy a dictionary.

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(archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.

I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all. "• Francis Beaumont.

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To lay or spread out; expose; display.

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To spend, or distribute money.
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Origin of outlay

  • From out- +"Ž lay.

    From Wiktionary

Outlay Sentence Examples

  • The outlay on trust property in that period was more than fifteen millions.

  • Within ten years this category of outlay had increased from 8,000,000 to 28,800,000.

  • As yet no more definite principle has been discovered than the somewhat obvious one of measuring the proposed items of outlay (I) against each other, (2) against the sacrifice that additional taxation involves.

  • The canal system of Orissa was never expected to be remunerative, since in five years out of six the local rainfall is sufficient for the rice crop. In1878-1879the area irrigated was 111,250 acres, and the outlay up to date was Rx.1,750,000.

  • The "cell" scheme of individual separation holds the ground, and countries which can afford the outlay have built or are building cellular prisons.

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