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Outlay vs Spent - What's the difference?

outlay | spent |

As verbs the difference between outlay and spent

is that outlay is to lay or spread out; expose; display while spent is past tense of spend.

As a noun outlay

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

As an adjective spent is

consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.

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

    spent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
    • a spent cartridge

    Related terms

    * spent force

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spend)

    • Statistics

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    Adjective

  • tense
    • en spent situasjon - a tense situation

    References

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