"economic outlay" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to money that is spent for a particular purpose. For example, "The company needed to carefully consider its economic outlay before approving the request for a new budget."
After all, the company's earnings were not actually reduced because option grants represent no economic outlay.
This might justify the economic outlay, but an ethical justification it is not.
Instead the Commissioner asserts that discharge of indebtedness is unique among the types of items excluded from gross income because no economic outlay is required of the taxpayer receiving discharge of indebtedness.
Herman, the second son and third child, was put to work at an early age, making his way aimlessly from clerking through school teaching to another job that required no economic outlay, the life of a common sailor.
SETTING out on the primary route, for whatever reasons a candidate and his staff sit down and figure out how they can make the best showing at the least risk for the most economic outlay of time and money.
The final regulations specifically retained the "economic outlay" requirement in one context.
The complementary Investment Model (Linver et al. 2002; Bradley and Corwyn 2002) suggests that parents in poor families will have to prioritise immediate material needs and will therefore be more inattentive towards their offspring, while families with ample economic resources are more able to "invest" in their children, both in terms of time spent and in terms of economic outlays.
Federal budget deficits have soared because of a combination of upper-bracket tax favors, middle-income job shrinkage, big federal spending to hype election-year economic growth, huge defense outlays and overseas military spending for the wars in Iraq and elsewhere.
The PRC trails only the U.S. in economic activity and military outlays.
The Joint Economic Committee shall review the estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority and submit an economic evaluation of the budget outlays and budget authority to the Committees on the Budget of both Houses before March 1 of each year.
This fall, Congress will either follow the conventional wisdom and prematurely cut government outlay before an economic recovery arrives, or it will increase public spending, put jobless Americans back to work, and reduce the deficit in a less painful fashion thanks to increasing economic tailwinds.
