outlay
/aʊtˈleɪ/ verb C2- To lay or spread out; expose; display.
- To spend, or distribute money.
He/she/it outlays · Past outlaid · Past participle outlaid · -ing form outlaying
Verb forms
- Base form
- outlay
- He/she/it
- outlays
- Past
- outlaid
- Past participle
- outlaid
- -ing form
- outlaying
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
Now, by way of having a resting-place during his excursions, avoiding the wretched cookery—which has been trying its best to poison me during the last four months, while you have manfully resisted its effects for as many years,—and obtaining a bed on which it is possible to slumber, Monte Cristo has furnished for himself a temporary abode where you first found him; but, to prevent the possibility of the Tuscan government taking a fancy to his enchanted palace, and thereby depriving him of the advantages naturally expected from so large an outlay of capital, he has wisely enough purchased the island, and taken its name.
“That the day after tomorrow I shall have to draw upon you for about four thousand francs; but the count, expecting my bachelor’s revenue could not suffice for the coming month’s outlay, has offered me a draft for twenty thousand francs.
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