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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outlay
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
capital
▪ He thinks they would cost too much in capital outlay and year-round maintenance.
▪ He had a manufacturing business to launch-one that required a major capital outlay to get going.
▪ Most involve no capital outlay, being supplied under the discounted electricity purchase scheme.
financial
▪ If anyone feels the Lord prompting them to help meet this financial outlay please see Rosina Kilpatrick or myself.
initial
▪ In other words, it is the rate that equates future net cash flows to the initial investment outlay.
▪ It was almost instantly profitable, because his initial outlay was tiny.
▪ Capital may be either the initial capital outlay including working capital or the average capital employed over the life of the project.
▪ With the high pressure pumps and piping required, the initial outlay at Aonach Mor on their one cannon is £35,000.
▪ As well as the initial outlay of purchasing the machine, they need to know what to expect in terms of running costs.
▪ And all are designed to keep their looks, long after the initial outlay is forgotten.
▪ This matched the initial outlay by the city, regional and provincial governments for the building and a £20 million permanent collection.
▪ The initial outlay is quite low and the information here is based on using equipment and ingredients that are freely available.
large
▪ This way the size of the kit increases gradually with no large cash outlay.
small
▪ Eva had a brand new wardrobe for only a small outlay.
▪ There was a small outlay for goal posts and other equipment.
▪ All for a remarkably small outlay.
▪ Again, for remarkably small outlay, you will have added new interest and improved the quality of the room.
total
▪ No consumer is worse off, because buying x units results in the same total outlay.
▪ The reduction represents a 9 percent drop in total education outlays.
▪ But the cost of conversion often pushed the total outlay way over the property's market value.
■ NOUN
cash
▪ This way the size of the kit increases gradually with no large cash outlay.
▪ They must not demand a very high cash outlay or demand a very high degree of risk thereby endangering subsistence.
▪ Total cash outlays last year rose 11 p.c. to £213 billion, including £19.3 billion in March.
▪ Bernstein reminded Sloan of his remark that Mitchell had almost certainly known of the cash outlays from the secret fund.
▪ A complete picture for the DoI's 1982-83 cash outlay is difficult to build up.
▪ Add in your best guess as to any cash outlays you made.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ T- shirts are easy to produce, requiring little initial outlay and a minimum of time and effort.
▪ The best business is one with a small outlay and with no risk involved.
▪ When we built the factory the outlay on machinery was heavy but we were able to buy all the latest equipment.
▪ You can start a fast-food franchise for a relatively modest outlay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Assuming that the more expensive units are stronger and better designed, the birds will produce above the extra outlay.
▪ Both films employ innovative computer-generated graphics that required staggering outlays in hardware.
▪ Eva had a brand new wardrobe for only a small outlay.
▪ He thinks they would cost too much in capital outlay and year-round maintenance.
▪ It was almost instantly profitable, because his initial outlay was tiny.
▪ Pre-tax profit rose to £2.76million, from £2.45million after exceptional outlays in the previous year to September 30.
▪ That change also would reduce federal outlays, de Souza said.
▪ Trillions of dollars in military outlays later, the Cold War is history.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlay

Outlay \Out*lay"\, v. t. To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.]
--Drayton.

Outlay

Outlay \Out"lay`\, n.

  1. A laying out or expending.

  2. That which is expended; expenditure.

  3. An outlying haunt. [Obs.]
    --Beau. & Fl.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outlay

"act or fact of laying out (especially money) or expending," 1798, originally Scottish, from out (adv.) + lay (v.).

Wiktionary
outlay

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 transitive English) To spend, or distribute money.

WordNet
outlay

  1. n. the act of spending or disbursing money [syn: spending, disbursement, disbursal]

  2. money paid out [syn: outgo, expenditure] [ant: income]

  3. [also: outlaid]

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.