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

• Households pay down their debts rather than making new outlays on consumer goods.
  家庭部门倾向于偿还债务，而非新增支出以购买消费品。
• 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。
• Costs for such environments include the purchase price and maintenance for the operating system, initial outlays and upgrades for hardware, and other administration expenditures.
  这种环境的花销包括购买和维护操作系统的费用、购买和升级硬件的花费以及管理支出。
• The survey of small-business owners asks questions based on plans to increase employment, capital outlays and inventories as well as whether they expect economic and credit conditions and sales to improve.
  在调查中，小企业主们被问到的问题包括是否计划增加招聘、资本支出和库存，以及是否预计经济和信贷环境以及销售状况将会改善。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On the fiscal front, deficit reduction measures must be undertaken to reduce expected future outlays.
  在财政方面，必须施行减少赤字的措施，以减少未来的预期支出。
• The authors want savings there and in social security outlays as well, another political mantrap.
  两位作者希望能在这一领域以及社会保障支出方面节省一些钱，而社保领域又是一个政治禁区。
• But discretionary outlays, including defence, are less than 40% of the total budget.
  问题在于包括国防在内的机动支出仅占总预算的40%。