outlaid

verb

simple past tense and past participle of outlay.

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noun

an expending or spending, as of money.

an amount expended; expenditure.

verb (used with object)

to expend, as money.

Origin:
1545–55; out- + lay¹

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outlay

—n
1.	an expenditure of money, effort, etc

—vb , -lays, -laying, -laid
2.	(tr) to spend (money)

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Word Origin & History

outlay

"act or fact of laying out (especially money) or expending," 1798, originally Scottish, from out + lay (v.).

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