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Answer for the clue "Laying out ", 10 letters:
disbursing

Word definitions for disbursing in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disburse \Dis*burse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disbursed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disbursing .] [OF. desbourser, F. d['e]bourser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + bourse purse. See Burse , and cf. Dispurse .] To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of disburse English)

Usage examples of disbursing.

He's the ship's disbursing officer, so the first reaction has been to count the payroll.

I know it's nearly two years back, but surely there must have been at least routine paper on an officer supposedly going over the hill like that--especially if he was a disbursing officer.

And maybe we ought to call the Navy supply system--I forget their acronym, but those guys who do audits on disbursing officers when somebody thinks something isn't kosher.

Who knows how much of that time was spent serving the port, and how much of it was spent disbursing the public's money to Calvin Grigsby and other secret pals.