outlay
IPA: ˈaʊtɫeɪ
noun
- A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
- The spending of money, or an expenditure.
- (archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.
verb
- (transitive) To lay or spread out; expose; display.
- (transitive) To spend, or distribute money.
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Examples of "outlay" in Sentences
- The initial outlay is steep, but it saves a lot of money in the longer-term.
- Right now, the Lebanese population outlay is somewhere around 23% Shiite, 23% Sunni and 41% Christian.
- An innovation costing nothing may be put up with, but an innovation involving an outlay is not easily tolerated.
- Relative to Canada's Gross Domestic Product, this outlay is comparable to those of some of the leading OECD countries.
- The initial outlay is higher, but because the systems last so much longer in bad conditions, they cost becomes closer to equal over time.
- If he decides to go into livestock, then large capital outlay is required and, depending on his operation, a one-to-three-to-five year cycle.
- Does the amendment's term "outlay" apply to long-term capital investments such as infrastructure spending, of which the Obama administration is so fond?
- If a monthly outlay is all that concerns you, you may wind up driving a nice (r) car and trading it in every few years (at lease expiration) for … another leased new car.
- With respect to Training Areas, the acquisition of this indispensable adjunct to training will doubtless entail expense, but the outlay is fully justified, and delay will not help matters from a pecuniary point of view.
- Many corporations have long since figured out that a small short term outlay in the present to create environmental sustainability can produce huge cost savings in the future and win scores of PR brownie points at the same time.
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