Antonyms for outlay
ˈaʊtˌleɪ; ˌaʊtˈleɪout·lay

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1. outlay

   The cost of a thing is whatever one surrenders or gives up for it, intentionally or unintentionally, or even unconsciously; expense is what is laid out by calculation or intention. We say, "he won his fame at the cost of his life;" "I know it to my cost;" we speak of a joke at another's expense; at another's cost would seem to make it a more serious matter. There is a tendency to use cost of what we pay for a possession, expense of what we pay for a service; we speak of the cost of goods, the expense of making up. Outlay is used of some definite expenditure, as for the purchase of supplies; outgo of a steady drain or of incidental expenses. See PRICE.

   Antonyms:
   gain, income, proceeds, product, profit, profits, receipt, receipts, return, returns

   Synonyms:
   cost, expenditure, expense, outgo

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1. • Payment
   • Transferred Property

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlaynoun

   the act of spending or disbursing money

   Synonyms:
   expense, disbursal, expenditure, outgo, spending, disbursement

2. outgo, spending, expenditure, outlaynoun

   money paid out; an amount spent

   Synonyms:
   consumption, disbursal, spending, expenditure, using up, outgo, expending, disbursement

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1. outlaynoun

   Synonyms:
   expenditure, disbursement

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. inlaynoun

   the amount of money or stuff that one gets/receives from a certain action/transaction

   the company got an inlay surplus of usd 1.5 m

   Submitted by mansachione on August 20, 2023  

How to use outlay in a sentence?

1. Read MoreA State Department spokesperson:

   Statements are declarations and are very important, but they can't be seen as an end in themselves, they have to be backed up by action and the US is already moving forward on a just energy transition. We will also soon have a set of bills that produce $ 800 billion in clean energy and climate programs -- the biggest single outlay in the U.S. of resources for climate action ever.

2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

3. Michael Roche:

   This helps eliminate some of the legacy debt of the 2001 default, i had expected them to target the discounts which have a 8.28% coupon, but that would take a fair amount of outlay to extinguish.

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