outlay

Speech parts

1. outlay - Noun

2. outlay - Verb

Meaning

To lay out; to spread out; to display.

A laying out or expending.

That which is expended; expenditure.

An outlying haunt.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spending expenditure disbursement outgo disbursal levy rate value amount give cost bill output charge pay
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Antonyms

return problem loss income pay gain
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Hypernyms

payment defrayal defrayment transferred possession transferred property

Hyponyms

cost expense expenditure expending deficit spending pump priming

Phrases with the word

capital outlay financial outlay budgetary outlay

Derivatives

outlaid

Anagrams

layout

Examples

Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen. Francis Parkman

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort... when everyone does this the natural order, instead of being endangered, will be all the better assured. François Quesnay

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. Wilfred Owen

Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. Dick Thornburgh

Don't dissipate your powers strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. William Lyon Mackenzie King

Close letter words and terms

outlawness outlawry outlawyer outlaying outlead outleading