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In some senses, outlay is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
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 physical condition of the work to be replaced.
A remote haunt or habitation.
I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all.
verb
To lay or spread out; expose; display.
Their boggy breasts out-lay, and Skipton down doth crawl
To spend, or distribute money.