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outlay

An outlay is an amount of money spent on something. Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.

outlay

(= spending) the act of spending or disbursing money (= spending) money paid out; an amount spent

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And no outlay, no expenditure.
Fortunately, our capital outlay has been handsomely offset by the resultant sales of armaments and missiles.
And for the minimal outlay of one dollar you can take home a bottle of liquid Lothario distilled Don Juan, catalytically carbonated Casanova.
Current running costs, projected capital outlay, that sort of thing.
Five thousand dollars outlay, a guaranteed ten-thousand-dollar return.
Tony, before I outlay for these costs, I need to know.
The initial outlay was half a million dollars-- I pumped in as much again in the last six months.
I hope the job's going to be worth the outlay.
With virtually no capital outlay, conservative pricing, and relying strictly on word-of-mouth and referrals.
I can't think of anything I'd rather have done this journey in than a small open-top sports car, because what cars like this give you, for a relatively small outlay, is access to 93 million miles of blue sky.
Right, please tell me there's an external diagnostic outlay in this room.
Only after a big cash outlay, and only if you're going after something that everyone already knows is bad, like car companies or cigarette multinationals or Rob Schneider movies.
I have receipts that show my client's financial outlay to rectify the problem far exceeds the amount.
Paper is our biggest variable outlay.
With an outlay of 20 francs.
Admit that you know the outlay of the Labyrinth!
You seem to know its outlay only too well.
Fortunately our capital outlay has been handsomely offset by the resultant sales of armaments and missiles.
Are you worried about the capital outlay?
The job does not involve any outlay.
So the capital outlay is huge.
The microfilm's recovered and no outlay of money.
There would be no outlay for you, other than a fee for my discharge - on which you and I might agree, and which may provide for my husband and myself to remove ourselves from this quarter.
Well, it's capital with no outlay.
Oh, we'll recover the capital outlay soon enough, Charlie.
The outlay will be negligible. The rent free.
Why spend good money at the grocers for bacon and sausages when with a small outlay, we can have our own for free?
We work good hours, so you can be sure of a pleasing return for your outlay.
We appreciate your counsel here today, Henry, but I just can't justify the extra outlay to my board, not for another security contract.
This is about a costly outlay.
More cash for her, less outlay for us.
A simple process requiring a few seconds' work on the old man and a modest outlay for two bags of cement.

News and current affairs

For a very low cash outlay - and perhaps none at all on balance - we could conserve nature and thus protect the basis of our own lives and livelihoods.
Nothing short of a massive, Marshall Plan-style outlay of financial resources, especially to rebuild the Middle East, will ensure long-term stability.
Using a standard climate model, by 2100, the UK's huge outlay will have postponed global warming by just over ten days.
Despite a significant outlay, government efforts to create green jobs could end up resulting in net job losses.
Using a more realistic approach, and including monitoring and administration costs, the outlay for governments will still be less than half of the economic benefits.

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