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OUTLAY
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Irregular inflected form: outlaid
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of spending or disbursing money
Synonyms:
disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("outlay" is a kind of...):
defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outlay"):
expending; expenditure (the act of spending money for goods or services)
compensatory spending; deficit spending; pump priming (spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Money paid out; an amount spent
Synonyms:
expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("outlay" is a kind of...):
transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "outlay"):
cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)
expense (money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer)
transfer payment (a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb outlay
