Word Finder - outlay

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A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.

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The spending of money, or an expenditure.

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Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.

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A remote haunt or habitation.

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To lay or spread out; expose; display.

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To spend, or distribute money.

The outlay on trust property in that period was more than fifteen millions.

Within ten years this category of outlay had increased from 8,000,000 to 28,800,000.

As yet no more definite principle has been discovered than the somewhat obvious one of measuring the proposed items of outlay (I) against each other, (2) against the sacrifice that additional taxation involves.

The canal system of Orissa was never expected to be remunerative, since in five years out of six the local rainfall is sufficient for the rice crop. In1878-1879the area irrigated was 111,250 acres, and the outlay up to date was Rx.1,750,000.

The "cell" scheme of individual separation holds the ground, and countries which can afford the outlay have built or are building cellular prisons.

The expedition was undertaken on his suggestion and its success was largely due to his energy and enthusiasm; in September 1749 £ 183,650 (English) in coin was brought to Boston to cover the outlay of Massachusetts, and largely through Shirley's influence this was used for the redemption of outstanding paper money, thus re-establishing the finances of the province, a subject to which Shirley had given much attention.

From 1885-1886 onwards, outlay on public works, military and colonial expenditure, and especially the commercial and financial crises, contributed to produce annual deficits; but owing to drastic reforms introduced in 1894-1895 and to careful management the year 1898-1899 marked a return of surpluses (nearly 1,306,400).

Railways.It is easy to understand that an enterprise like railway construction, requiring a great outlay of capital with returns long delayed, did not at first commend itself to the Japanese, who were almost entirely ignorant of co-operation as a factor of business organization.

His request for a surveyor to check the outlay on the public works is refused on the ground that the emperor has hardly enough surveyors for the works he is carrying on in Rome.

The first problem on this side of expenditure is the due balancing of outlay by income.

Of almost equal importance is the rule that the utmost return is to be obtained for the given outlay.

Just application of the outlay of the state, so that no class receives undue advantage, and the use of public funds for " reproductive," in preference to " unproductive " objects, are evident general principles whose difficulty lies in their application to the circumstances of each particular case.

Historically, there is, first, the tendency towards increase in state income to balance the advance in outlay.

All outlay by the state is brought into due co-ordination, and it becomes possible for constitutional government to supervise and direct it.

Financial adjustment implies the conception of a balance, and this should be found in the relation of outlay and income.

Even friends of the railway presaged that such outlay could not by any possibility be remunerative; but the contrary became evident from the moment the line was opened on the 17th of September 1838.

In 1890 a Russian company started a match factory near Teheran with an initial outlay, it is said, of about 20,000, but could not successfully compete with Austrian and Swedish matches and ceased operations very soon.

A few mines are worked by natives in a primitive, systemless manner, and without any great outlay of capital.

Repairs on the buildings left standing on this street alone involved an outlay of $5,000,000.

Owing to the costliness of the undertaking, and the death of the earl in 181 9, the works were suspended after an outlay of L10o,000, but his successor completed the scheme on a reduced scale at an expense of another X1 00,000.

And there was po corruption in Burke's outlay.

This system shows a greater economy in the cost of carbonizing the coal, but the large outlay and the wear and tear of the mechanical appliances involved have so far prevented its very general adoption.

But the "inglorious and costly war" entailed an outlay of more than £12,000 on the ransom of captives alone, and ended in the total destruction of Athenian influence throughout Euboea.

In the same year commissioners were nominated by the crown to inquire (inter alia) as to a general system for railways in Ireland, and as to the best mode of directing the development of the means of intercourse to the channels whereby the greatest advantage might be obtained by the smallest outlay.

In the former there is a tin and iron manufactory built by the Messrs. Crawshay, at an outlay of £ 100,000.

The money from the sale of the ROC's is used to recoup the capital outlay by Wind Direct.

Plus you worry that you would not pick up enough business to justify the outlay.

All of these options will inevitably incur financial outlay.

Tax credits will involve the outlay of some £ 16 billion each year.

Firstly, Contract Hire requires a low initial outlay compared to conventional finance deals, usually only three monthly payments in advance.

The initial outlay is for a digital video camera.

This amounts to an increase of 5% to their monthly turnover with only a minimal outlay.

For a modest outlay, walkers can then have the most up-to-date guide to the fells.

In many cases, a simple change of attitude is required rather than financial outlay.

Going back to the pencils, how do we get the greatest use out of them for the minimum outlay of effort?

Santa's most expensive outlay is accidental damage against all the toys in the world, which would cost him £ 270 million.

We have received a profit of £ 5,000 on a capital outlay of £ 10,000 - 50% gross return on capital.

The average rate of return on initial cash Investment is the return based on the cash outlay needed for a 25% deposit.

Your message is sent out quickly, efficiently, with virtually no cost outlay.

This ingenious Origin Live upgrade elevates a good tonearm into the same league as much more expensive arms and at an insignificant outlay.

He recouped most of the outlay when Hughie Baird returned north of the border in October, joining Aberdeen in an £ 11,000 deal.

Most of the outlay will be recouped quickly from existing orders.

Economy in capital outlay and cheapness in construction is indeed the characteristic generally associated with light railways by the public, and implicitly attached to them by parliament in the act of 1896, and any simplifications of the engineering or mechanical features they may exhibit compared with the standard railways of the country are mainly, if not entirely, due to the desire to keep down their expenses.

If the sole purpose for which an animal is reared is to prepare it for the block - and this is the case with steers amongst cattle and with wethers amongst sheep - the sooner it is ready for slaughter the less should be the outlay involved.

On farms of moderate size it is usual to hire steam tackle as required, the outlay involved in the purchase of a set being justifiable only in the case of estates or of very big farms where, when not engaged in ploughing, or in cultivating, or in other work upon the land, the steam-engine may be employed in threshing, chaff-cutting, sawing and many similar operations which require power.

It is probable that up to 1875, at least, there had been a larger outlay of labour, material and money, in reducing, levelling and reclaiming territory, and in straightening and widening thoroughfares 1 in Boston, than had been expended for the same purposes in all the other chief cities of the United States together.

The old system of locating immigrants in colonies, or colonial nuclei, which involved an enormous outlay of money with but slight benefit to the country, has been superseded by a system of locating the immigrants on the large plantations under formal contracts.

The richer veins had evidently been long ago worked out, and nothing of sufficient value to justify further outlay was discovered.

His little account books of income and outlay, with every item entered down to a few hours before his death, are accurate and neat enough to have satisfied an ancient Roman householder.

A commission was appointed to consider the best modes of retrenchment, and the outlay on shows and games was cut down to the lowest possible point.