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Outlay vs Layoff - What's the difference?

outlay | layoff |

As nouns the difference between outlay and layoff

is that outlay is a laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended while layoff is a dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).

As a verb outlay

is to lay or spread out; expose; display.

outlay

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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.

    Verb

  • To lay or spread out; expose; display.
    • (Drayton)
  • To spend, or distribute money.

    • Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs

    layoff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
  • A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool}}
  • (British, football) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.

    • Synonyms

    * (dismissal of employees): downsizing, reduction in force

    See also

    * lay off

    Anagrams

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    External links

    * (wikipedia "layoff")