Outlay
ahd-5
noun.
The spending or disbursement of money.
noun.
An amount spent; an expenditure.
transitive verb.
To spend or disburse (money).
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
To lay or spread out; expose; display.
noun.
A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended; expenditure: as, that mansion has been built at a great
outlay.
noun.
A remote haunt.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To lay out; to spread out; to display.
noun.
A laying out or expending.
noun.
That which is expended; expenditure.
noun.
An outlying haunt.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A
laying
out or
expending
; that which is laid out or expended.
noun.
The
spending
of
money
, or an
expenditure
.
noun.
A
remote
haunt
or habitation.
verb.
To lay or spread out;
expose
;
display
.
verb.
To
spend
, or
distribute
money.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
money paid out; an amount spent
noun.
the act of spending or disbursing money
Word Usage
"The initial outlay is higher, but because the systems last so much longer in bad conditions, they cost becomes closer to equal over time."
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
allocation
allowance
annuity
appropriation
contribution
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
budget
cost
cost out
disburse
disbursement
variant
outlaid
verb-form
outlaid
outlaying
outlays