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the outlay
noun
A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
Exact(59)
The outlay has proved to be disastrous.
Leather covers add to the outlay.
The outlay would be modest.
The outlay was more than $10,000.
For all the outlay, will it work?
Tenants pay rent and recoup the outlay through housing benefit.
And the outlay for pizzas and newspapers and movie tickets?
The longer-term opportunities may justify the outlay.
Recouping the outlay is also nigh on impossible.
Cuomo distances himself from the outlay, if not the goods.
Investors want to know if the outlay will be recouped.
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