Usually means: Expenditure of money or resources.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word outlay:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. outlay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. outlay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outlay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. outlay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. outlay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Outlay, outlay: Wordnik
  7. outlay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. outlay: Wiktionary
  9. outlay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. outlay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. outlay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Outlay, outlay: Dictionary.com
  13. outlay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. outlay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Outlay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Outlay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. outlay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. outlay: Rhymezone
  19. outlay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. outlay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. outlay: Free Dictionary
  22. outlay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. outlay: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. outlay: Legal dictionary
  4. outlay: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outlay: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
noun:  The spending of money, or an expenditure.
noun:  (archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.
verb:  (transitive) To lay or spread out; expose; display.
verb:  (transitive) To spend, or distribute money.

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