What's the difference between cost and outlay?

Cost


Definition:

  • (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
  • (n.) See Cottise.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Cost
  • (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
  • (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
  • (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
  • (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
  • (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
  • (8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
  • (17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.

Outlay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay out; to spread out; to display.
  • (n.) A laying out or expending.
  • (n.) That which is expended; expenditure.
  • (n.) An outlying haunt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People taking up the subsidies will receive a rate of return on their outlay of about 12%, according to government calculations.
  • (2) The introduction of prospective payment for Medicare hospital services appears to have increased Medicare outlays for home health by an estimated 25%.
  • (3) With its general outlay, the presently used combination of the four programs is particularly user-friendly.
  • (4) From being the eurozone's most indebted nation, Greeks can now expect to see their debt load cut to 124% of GDP in 2020 from the projected 190% of national outlay in 2014, under a package of measure that include a bond buy-back and various interest rate cuts on official loans.
  • (5) The current and previous year's financial outlay should be coordinated with the budget year.
  • (6) The results of both methods were compared, confirming the accuracy of the paired combinations method, which minimizes energy outputs and resource outlays.
  • (7) For purposes of the present study of people over 65 attending a particular Health Centre, we aimed to discover and inter-relate their morbidity due to chronic illnesses, their frequency of attendance, and the total average outlay of drugs on them.
  • (8) Following a pre-West End run in Liverpool, the show recouped its entire £750,000 outlay only six weeks after opening in London.
  • (9) The Sweden international moved to Paris from Milan in the summer of 2012 as the figurehead purchase of Qatar Sport Investments’ vast outlay on new players.
  • (10) Americans favor more rather than less health spending, at least as long as the economy remains strong, and they do not think the deficit problem requires cuts in medical care outlays.
  • (11) In the current year, the budgetary outlay amounts to only 0.25% of GDP after taking into account the arrears from the previous year.
  • (12) Also, because natural monopolies (eg, water, energy, transport) typically require very large initial capital outlays, often the state alone is in a position to finance them.
  • (13) The effects of persistent underfinancing of recurrent costs in El Salvador are the growing proportion of the MOH budget being consumed by outlays for personnel at the expense of virtually all other budgetary categories; the shortages of drugs and general medical supplies in public health facilities; and reduced levels of utilization of those facilities from what would otherwise be expected; all of which together imply a reduced level of both productivity and effectiveness of the public health care system.
  • (14) Household disposable income Household disposable income This a key measure of household spending power and watched closely by the Treasury now the economy is driven largely by consumer outlay.
  • (15) As Touré and Fernandinho cost a combined outlay of about £58m, how can Moyes hope to compete with City's spending power if he wants to bridge the quality gap?
  • (16) Chelsea's lavish outlay came on the day the club announced losses of £70.9m for the financial year ending June 2010, with Abramovich's sudden willingness to return to the mind-boggling spending of the early years of his ownership a reflection of the need to strengthen the champions' relatively thin squad.
  • (17) Standing beside her mattress, Kamara outlines the cost of education – $11 a week for school fees, an outlay of $4 for the four-year-old’s uniform and $6 for the 12-year-old’s.
  • (18) The European Investment Bank, for example, is set to finance investments worth at least €315bn (£222bn) by 2017 with a fiscal outlay of €21bn.
  • (19) The suspicion is that consumers are subsidising fatcat Premier League wages as the telecom companies seek to recoup the massive outlay they have paid to acquire television rights – with this week’s £1.2bn renewal of Champions League rights the latest major investment.
  • (20) There will be an initial outlay for equipment and mouthpieces for these new tests, but Nice believes the overall cost per test, including the time of GP practice nurses, will be £13.66.

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