All outlay synonyms
out·lay
O o noun outlay
- expenditure — The action of spending funds.
- expense — The cost required for something; the money spent on something.
- sum — the aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars as determined by or as if by the mathematical process of addition: The sum of 6 and 8 is 14.
- amount — The amount of something is how much there is, or how much you have, need, or get.
- cost — The cost of something is the amount of money that is needed in order to buy, do, or make it.
- spending — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- disbursement — the act or an instance of disbursing.
- expenses — Plural form of expense.
- investment — the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
- charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- damage — To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- score — the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- tab — ht
- throw — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- tune — Thomas James ("Tommy") born 1939, U.S. dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and director.
- bottom line — The bottom line in a decision or situation is the most important factor that you have to consider.
- highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
verb outlay
- expend — Spend or use up (a resource such as money, time, or energy).
- spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- lay out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- pay out — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
- disburse — to pay out (money), especially for expenses; expend.
- shell out — a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk.
- fork out — an instrument having two or more prongs or tines, for holding, lifting, etc., as an implement for handling food or any of various agricultural tools.