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outlay
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun outlay has 2 senses
- outlay(n = noun.act) disbursal, disbursement, spending - the act of spending or disbursing money; Array is a kind of defrayal, defrayment, payment
- outlay(n = noun.possession) expenditure, outgo, spending - money paid out; an amount spent; Array is a kind of transferred possession, transferred property
has particulars: expending, expenditure, compensatory spending, deficit spending, pump priming
has particulars: cost, expense, transfer payment
CIDE DICTIONARY
outlay, v. t.
To lay out; to spread out; to display. Drayton. [1913 Webster]
outlay, n.
- A laying out or expending. [1913 Webster]
- That which is expended; expenditure. [1913 Webster]
- An outlying haunt. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
outlay
budget, cost, cost out, disburse, disbursement, expend, expenditure, expense, fork out, give, go through, incur costs, invest, lay out, money going out, open the purse, outflow, outgo, outgoings, pay, pay out, payment, put out, run through, schedule, shell out, sink money in, spend, spending, spendings, splurge, squander, throw money around
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