Usage examples (27)

• The initial outlay is steep, but it saves a lot of money in the longer-term.
• An innovation costing nothing may be put up with, but an innovation involving an outlay is not easily tolerated.
• Relative to Canada's Gross Domestic Product, this outlay is comparable to those of some of the leading OECD countries.
• The initial outlay is higher, but because the systems last so much longer in bad conditions, they cost becomes closer to equal over time.