Outlay meaning

out'lā'
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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The spending or disbursement of money.

The weekly outlay on groceries.

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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.

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 expedition was undertaken on his suggestion and its success was largely due to his energy and enthusiasm; in September 1749 £ 183,650 (English) in coin was brought to Boston to cover the outlay of Massachusetts, and largely through Shirley's influence this was used for the redemption of outstanding paper money, thus re-establishing the finances of the province, a subject to which Shirley had given much attention.

  • The first problem on this side of expenditure is the due balancing of outlay by income.

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