outlays

英 [ˈaʊtleɪz]

美 [ˈaʊtˌleɪz]

n.  (启动新项目的)开支，费用
outlay的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （必要的）费用，开支
  Outlayis the amount of money that you have to spend in order to buy something or start a project.
  1. Apart from the capital outlay of buying the machine, dishwashers can actually save you money...
     除了购置所用开支，洗碗机实际上能为你省钱。
  2. A beginner could really enjoy the hobby for an outlay of between £100 or £120 a month.
     初学者只需每月花上100到120英镑便能真正享受到这种爱好带来的乐趣。

双语例句

• If it works, this could permanently reduce benefits outlays and boost labour participation.
  如果这招管用，就能永久性减少福利支出，提高劳动力参与率。
• The stimulus was almost all in the form of tax cuts and transfer payments rather than outlays for investment projects.
  财政刺激几乎全是以减税和转移支付的形式进行，而不是以投资项目支出的形式进行。
• Subsidies under paragraph 1 shall include both budgetary outlays and revenue foregone by governments or their agents.
  第1款下的补贴应包括政府或其代理机构的预算支出和放弃的税收。
• Sustained increases in its annual defense outlays put China on track to become a major military power.
  维持被放回归正常成为主要的军事力量的中国的它的年度防卫费用的增加。
• Starting with its "primary budget surplus" ( tax revenues exceeding total non-interest outlays), it can eliminate its overall budget deficit if it cuts spending by just 3 per cent of gross domestic product in a budget that equals half of GDP.
  首先可以从“基本预算盈余”（税收收入超过非利息支出总额的部分）入手只要在相当于国内生产总值（gdp）一半的预算中削减占gdp3%的支出，它就可以消除全部预算赤字。
• Sooner or later revenues will have to rise or outlays will have to be curtailed.
  政府迟早得增加财政收入或者削减支出。
• Higher consumer spending, including increased outlays on health care, and a narrower trade balance also contributed to the summer improvement.
  包括医疗保健等领域的消费者支出的加大，以及贸易逆差的收窄，也促成了今夏经济增速的提高。
• Rescuing the financial system will probably require large outlays beyond the funds already disbursed.
  救援金融体系可能还需要在已经注入的资金基础上大幅扩大支出。
• This will involve high expenses and nonrecoverable outlays.
  这将意味着庞大的支出和不能收回的投资。
• A plan to finance long-term outlays, such as for fixed assets like facilities and equipment.
  融通长期支出（如机械设备等固定资产）计划。