What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Outlay vs Outplay - What's the difference?

outlay | outplay |

As verbs the difference between outlay and outplay

is that outlay is to lay or spread out; expose; display while outplay is to excel or defeat in a game; to play better than.

As a noun outlay

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

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

    outplay

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than.
    • We were outplayed at tennis, but we outplayed them at football.

    Anagrams

    *