as in expenses
a payment made in the course of achieving a result
the outlays for the couple's upcoming wedding seem to be multiplying at an incredible rate
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as in spends
to hand over or use up in payment
the nation had outlaid nearly 20 billion dollars on social programs at that point
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Recent Examples of outlays
Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Governments are acknowledging the need for bigger defense outlays.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Losses were limited in 2020 because organizers pulled the plug on the game two months beforehand, well before most cash outlays were made.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Between 2022 and 2024, Moscow allocated at least $263 billion to defence outlays — approximately 7% of GDP annually — transforming a massive portion of its economy into a military-industrial complex on a scale that is unprecedented since the Cold War.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Spending on restaurants and cafes is among the biggest category of consumer outlays in the kingdom, with $2 billion spent in August — nearly 12% of total spending captured from payment machines, according to Saudi Central Bank data.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
In a post to his personal Twitter account, Newsom later took a shot at the president’s penchant for pricey capital outlays to extravagant ends.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Of this, discretionary spending—which includes transportation, education, housing, social services programs, science outlays, and much more—represented just 26% of the total.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
This leads, all else constant, to cutting investment outlays in intangibles to make the earnings numbers look good.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Governments are acknowledging the need for bigger defense outlays.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Losses were limited in 2020 because organizers pulled the plug on the game two months beforehand, well before most cash outlays were made.
—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Between 2022 and 2024, Moscow allocated at least $263 billion to defence outlays — approximately 7% of GDP annually — transforming a massive portion of its economy into a military-industrial complex on a scale that is unprecedented since the Cold War.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Spending on restaurants and cafes is among the biggest category of consumer outlays in the kingdom, with $2 billion spent in August — nearly 12% of total spending captured from payment machines, according to Saudi Central Bank data.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
In a post to his personal Twitter account, Newsom later took a shot at the president’s penchant for pricey capital outlays to extravagant ends.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Of this, discretionary spending—which includes transportation, education, housing, social services programs, science outlays, and much more—represented just 26% of the total.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
This leads, all else constant, to cutting investment outlays in intangibles to make the earnings numbers look good.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outlays
Noun
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The weather can have a notable impact on heating expenses in a number of ways—not only because colder temperatures will raise the amount of energy needed to warm a home, but also because colder weather increases the demand for electricity, which can cause prices to go up too.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Partly because of Pure Water expenses, the San Diego City Council is scheduled Tuesday to approve raising water rates more than 60% over four years and sewer rates more than 30% during that time frame.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Corden is joined by Bobby Cannavale and Neil Patrick Harris for the first-ever Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s play, which follows three longtime friends whose relationship is pushed to the brink when one of them spends a fortune on a stark, all-white painting.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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But the labor reductions also arrive as the company spends heavily on AI.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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Daylight saving time was introduced in the United States in 1918 with the Standard Time Act, which was meant to lower fuel costs during the First World War.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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But for now, the best view from Turn 1 costs only the extra price of showing up early and braving the midday Texas sun.—
Patrick Iversen,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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The collection also pays tribute to the Belgian designer’s work for Y/Project, with various pieces in the collection—from boots through to prints—nodding to key archival designs.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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The general fund also pays for parks, trash pickup, public works, code enforcement, and the county’s administrators and management staff, according to budget documents.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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The big four expenditures — Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, debt interest and defense — account for nearly three-quarters of national spending.—
Jim Nowlan,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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In June 2024, the Charlotte City Council agreed to terms of a deal that committed $650 million in public money to update Bank of America Stadium in Uptown — setting in motion one of the largest public expenditures in city history for a single project.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Outlays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outlays. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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