Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The spending or disbursement of money.
- noun An amount spent; an expenditure.
- transitive verb To spend or disburse (money).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay or spread out; expose; display.
- noun A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended; expenditure: as, that mansion has been built at a great outlay.
- noun A remote haunt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To lay out; to spread out; to display.
- noun A laying out or expending.
- noun That which is expended; expenditure.
- noun obsolete An outlying haunt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
laying out orexpending ; that which is laid out or expended. - noun The
spending ofmoney , or anexpenditure . - noun archaic A
remote haunt or habitation. - verb transitive To lay or spread out;
expose ;display . - verb transitive To
spend , ordistribute money.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun money paid out; an amount spent
- noun the act of spending or disbursing money
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Examples
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Does the amendment's term "outlay" apply to long-term capital investments such as infrastructure spending, of which the Obama administration is so fond?
The Balanced Budget Amendment's Fatal Flaw Peter H. Schuck 2011
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The initial outlay is steep, but it saves a lot of money in the longer-term.
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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.
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The initial outlay is higher, but because the systems last so much longer in bad conditions, they cost becomes closer to equal over time.
Resistance is futile: Sealed cable options for a hassle-free cyclocross season. 2010
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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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Right now, the Lebanese population outlay is somewhere around 23% Shiite, 23% Sunni and 41% Christian.
Think Progress » Right-Wing ‘Guide to World War III’: ‘Kill ‘Em All, Let Allah Sort ‘Em Out’ 2006
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Relative to Canada's Gross Domestic Product, this outlay is comparable to those of some of the leading OECD countries.
The Competitive Edge: Canada's R&D Strategies for the Global Market 1991
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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.
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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.
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An innovation costing nothing may be put up with, but an innovation involving an outlay is not easily tolerated.
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Pig-latin for lout.
November 21, 2008