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Disbursement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disbursing or paying out.
  • (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
  • (2) Everything has to move quickly because delaying the discussion and delaying the disbursement of the [next tranche] does not help the real economy.
  • (3) It also points to the huge benefits of small and rapid disbursements of funding: one doctor said that, had DfID provided him with the £7,500 he repeatedly asked for in June 2014 for eight isolation units, the money would have had the impact of “hundreds of thousands of pounds later on”.
  • (4) The OMP, due to run until 2014, has disbursed £3m to date.
  • (5) Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.
  • (6) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
  • (7) Hardly any development funding for implementation has been disbursed.” 68 million children likely to die by 2030 from preventable causes, report says Read more Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the series offered a “wake-up call to governments worldwide to make faster progress in reducing the number of stillbirths, which wreak untold damage on families, care givers and communities”.
  • (8) Ciff has already disbursed $7.5m from its overall $20m commitment : $2m to support MSF’s work on the ground, $3m to the Red Cross, and $2.5m to support Unicef in Sierra Leone.
  • (9) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
  • (10) There is often pressure to disburse aid rapidly and there are immense organisational challenges in suddenly expanding the scope and scale of programme delivery.
  • (11) Although this is not new money, the cash will now be disbursed with more urgency to kickstart infrastructure projects currently struggling for credit with the hope of galvanising private spending.
  • (12) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
  • (13) Mrs Ecclestone received disbursements from the trusts, in other words she also has a personal asset.
  • (14) The system of a government official inspecting toilets before disbursing money doesn’t work because toilet users do not feel ownership, he argues.
  • (15) Records suggest Inhofe’s 2014 campaign was a funding priority for the BP PAC, ranking as one of the top recipients of committee funds when compared with disbursements to other serving senators.
  • (16) The report adds: "Finance for adaptation is an obligation – it must be separate and additional to aid commitments, in the form of grants not loans, and disbursed through equitable governance mechanisms."
  • (17) Aides say the conservative leader will impress upon Barroso for rescue funds to be released as soon as possible saying “with the budget vote Greece has done its bit, now it is up to Europe to do the same.” The Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is in Brussels, says despite disagreement between the EU and IMF over how to resolve Greece’s debt sustainability, disbursement of the long-delayed €31.5bn aid package is now a “done deal.” The technocrat said he believed the entire amount would be “deposited in an account at the Bank of Greece by the end of November or early December” once individual member state parliaments had voted on the package.
  • (18) The average payment of £700 plus disbursements has not increased since 2003, and less than half of those who apply are successful anyway."
  • (19) He recommends a punitive or even 100% tax, and a low or zero tax on their disbursement.
  • (20) Britain is yet to make a decision on whether to disburse the remaining £8m, which is due in December.

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.