outlay

Noun

outlay (countable and uncountable, plural outlays)

1. A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
2. The spending of money, or an expenditure.
   • Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.
   • Regard must be had to the extent to which the original capital outlay has not been covered by the sum of the annual provisions for renewal, that is to say, in insurance terms, to the unexpired life of the original work, although this financial factor has to be modified in the light of the actual...1945 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “New Works Procedure”, in Railway Magazine, page 72
3. (archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.
   • I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all.c. 1609, Francis Beaumont, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding

Verb

IPA/aʊtˈleɪ/

outlay (third-person singular simple present outlays, present participle outlaying, simple past and past participle outlaid)

1. (transitive) To lay or spread out; expose; display.
   • Their boggy breasts out-lay, and Skipton down doth crawl1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned...
2. (transitive) To spend, or distribute money.