Disburse vs Outlay - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between disburse and outlay

is that disburse is to pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury while outlay is to lay or spread out; expose; display.

a laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.

(disburs)

(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.

* Do not confuse with the scattering word disperse, despite similarity.

(to pay out) shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)

* disbursement

(-)

A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.

The spending of money, or an expenditure.

Without too much outlay you could buy a dictionary.

(archaic) A remote haunt or habitation.

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

To lay or spread out; expose; display.

(Drayton)

To spend, or distribute money.