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outlay

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlay \Out*lay"\, v. t. To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.] --Drayton.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended. 2 The spending of money, or an expenditure. 3 (context archaic English) A remote haunt or habitation. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To lay or spread out; expose; display. 2 (context ...

Usage examples of outlay.

On very even land, where the whole surface, for hundreds of acres, slopes gradually in one or two directions, the outlay for mains need not be more than two per cent.

Simeon of Cambridge had previously set the example of caring for the unchurched population by his personal labors and the outlay of his large private fortune.

The Dearest Departures facility in Tombstone Canyon was transformed, with a modest capital outlay, to house the offices of the newly appointed Cochise County Coroner, Dr.

When sown with nurse crops and simply to improve the soil, it is customary to sow small rather than large quantities of seed, and for the reason that the hazard of failure to secure a stand every season is too considerable to justify the outlay.

Images cut, shifted, jumped, blurred, and blended across the screen, linking the Hreshi and the Dedelphi while Arron talked about the immeasurable wealth new bioforms could provide in terms of nanotech advances and how corporate execs would go to any lengths to recoup their outlays.

Crania had outlaid a fortune for a cook qualified to cast the most discriminating Epicure into ecstasies.

Thanks to the massive outlays it had been called upon to make for a number of years outfitting and paying and feeding Head Count armies, the State was broke.

These will please the ladies at home very greatly, and, if the children are at the same time abundantly supplied with fruits, nuts, cakes, and any little ornamental articles of confectionery which are of a nature to be unostentatiously removed, the kindhearted parent will make a whole household happy, without any additional expense beyond the outlay for his ticket.

The want of elegance which had spared him an outlay of a hundred thousand francs had deprived him of a profit of three hundred thousand.

Lapham, beginning with a woman's adventurousness in the unknown region, took fright at the reckless outlay at last, and refused to let her husband pass a certain limit.

Madame Cornelis must have received more than twelve hundred guineas, but the outlay was enormous, without any control or safeguard against the thefts, which must have been perpetrated on all sides.

Are you the sort to go hungry because you begrudge the outlay of a few bice?

Communities are ruined by the enormous outlays to which they are exposed: The payment of the deputies to the seneschal's court, the establishment of the burgess guards, guardhouses for this militia, and the purchase of arms, uniforms, and outlays in forming communes and permanent councils.

Lola had picked it up last year from an acquaintance who fenced for a haute couture shoplifting ring, and considered it worth every penny it had cost-a serious outlay of money even after the five-finger discount.

However obscenely rich we shortly grew by means of the great Pelfer's Buskins, Cowl and Gantlets, our outlay in the first instance must be huge.