| NOUN | act | outlay, spending, disbursement, disbursal | the act of spending or disbursing money |
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| possession | outlay, outgo, spending, expenditure | money paid out |
| Sounds | aw'tley. | |
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| Rhymes | AAA ... waylay: 40 rhymes with ley... | |
| Meaning | The act of spending or disbursing money. | |
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| Synonyms | spending, disbursement, disbursal | |
| Narrower | deficit spending, compensatory spending, pump priming | spending money raised by borrowing |
| expending, expenditure | The act of spending money for goods or services | |
| Broader | payment, defrayal, defrayment | The act of paying money |
| Spanish | desembolso | |
| Meaning | money paid out; an amount spent. | |
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| Synonyms | outgo, spending, expenditure | |
| Narrower | cost | The total / total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor |
| expense | money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | |
| transfer payment | A public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services | |
| Broader | transferred property, transferred possession | A possession whose ownership changes or lapses |
| Opposite | income | The financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time |
| Spanish | desembolso, gasto, gastos | |
| Catalan | desemborsament, despesa, despeses | |
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