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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a personal outlay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an individual's expenditure or financial investment in a particular context.
Example: "The project required a significant personal outlay, which I was willing to make to ensure its success."
Alternatives: "a personal expense" or "an individual investment".
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Postage of about $11 a box, and the blank discs themselves, would suggest a personal outlay of over $30,000.
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Now, criminal investigators want to know whether Ghosn reported all his income properly and whether he dipped into the corporate till for personal outlays -- effectively subsidizing a life that had grown to include homes in Paris, Tokyo and Brazil, and other emblems of luxury, notably a 2016 wedding party at Versailles with a Marie Antoinette theme.
Still we have to deal with rising unemployment, a sick Europe, falling real incomes, falling real personal outlays and weak industrial production.
Federal election officials on Wednesday released an accounting from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) itemizing dozens of apparently personal outlays — expenses for which he has reimbursed his campaign to the tune of $60,000.
The standard measure, produced by the Commerce Department, calculates personal income and personal outlays.
1936 Campaign Cost Roosevelt $510 In a novel departure from the usual Congressional method of scrutinizing campaign expenditures, the special investigating committee of the Senate today made public the first results of its inquiry in the personal outlays of all candidates now contesting for the offices of President and Vice-President.
The chief items of Church expenditure were as follows, viz.:a State outlay for Church.
Women who were successful in having their preferences met for model of care, vaginal birth after caesarean, or infant feeding often noted significant personal financial outlay to facilitate this.
These demographic differences could be explained by the fact that NWAHCS participants knew they were being recruited into a bio-medical cohort study with an outlay of personal time and effort required.
One of the most revealing documents in the Berenson archives is the draft of a letter that he wrote to his lawyer explaining to the I.R.S. why the appearance of wealth was necessary, and why his books and pictures and travels were legitimate business deductions: They make a difference between personal expenditure & outlay on business.
Is an advertisement an operating outlay or an asset acquisition?
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