different between paying vs outlay

English

Etymology

pay +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?.??/
• Rhymes: -e???
• Hyphenation: pay?ing

Verb

paying

1. present participle of pay

Derived terms

• fare-paying

Noun

paying (plural payings)

1. payment
   • 1912, Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy

     It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

Anagrams

• pygian

English

Etymology

From out- +? lay.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?a?tle?/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /a?t?le?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

outlay (countable and uncountable, plural outlays)

1. A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
2. The spending of money, or an expenditure.

   Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.

3. (archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.
   • c. 1609, Francis Beaumont, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding

     I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all.

Translations

Verb

outlay (third-person singular simple present outlays, present participle outlaying, simple past and past participle outlaid)

1. (transitive) To lay or spread out; expose; display.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

2. (transitive) To spend, or distribute money.

Translations

Anagrams

• lay out, lay-out, layout