Outlay
['aʊtleɪ] or ['aʊtle]
Definition
(v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.
(n.) A laying out or expending.
(n.) That which is expended; expenditure.
(n.) An outlying haunt.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Expenditure, outgo.
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Definition
n. that which is laid out: expenditure.—v.t. to lay out to view.
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Examples
- I was not studious in habit, and probably did not make progress enough to compensate for the outlay for board and tuition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- You are all for outlay with your farMs. I don't want to make out that my system is good under all circumstances--under all circumstances, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The outlay by the government in accomplishing this was nothing, or nearly nothing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He would not use his aunt's money previously lest Sir Pitt should recover and his outlay be in vain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Few Moors can ever build up their fortunes again in one short lifetime after so reckless an outlay. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The gas being made near the mouth of the coal-pit, the cost of conveyance was saved by the additional outlay in the first instance. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And the outlay was a difficulty, let me tell you. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typist: Molly