What's the difference between outlay and outplay?

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.

Outplay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The promising world No72 was comprehensively outplayed in the second set and regularly looked to her coaches in frustration.
  • (2) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
  • (3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
  • (4) But we are now faced with a fight to reach that objective and feel a change is necessary to maximise the opportunity presented by the final 13 games.” Leicester City’s triumph: the inside story of an extraordinary season | Stuart James Read more Ranieri was informed of the decision on his return from the club’s Champions League last-16 tie against Sevilla when, to put Leicester’s season into context, the champions of England came back from Spain seemingly happy with a 2-1 defeat in which they were largely outplayed.
  • (5) You can be sure that Murray won't tire, even if he is outplayed.
  • (6) After beating the Ghana team that had eliminated them from each of the past two World Cups, they followed up on Sunday by outplaying a Portugal side that – despite some notable injury problems – still had the Fifa World Player of the Year at its disposal.
  • (7) We were totally outplayed and England deserved all three points.
  • (8) The Spurs defender Toby Alderweireld, who was one of just four players to retain his place from last weekend’s Premier League draw against Arsenal, admitted they had been outplayed.
  • (9) Manchester United had been outplayed, it was plain to see and for the losing manager the ordeal was so great, the jolt so shuddering, there have been times since when it has felt like he has wanted to shut it out of his life.
  • (10) Prior to that Italy simply found themselves outplayed by younger and pacier opponents.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 1.47am GMT Real Salt Lake I was at the stadium when Real Salt Lake outshot, outplayed and generally bombarded D.C. United in the Open Cup final in September, only to watch their opponents score with the one chance they had, and their own efforts seemingly defy the laws of physics in staying out.
  • (12) Watching Robert Pires dribbling his way out of trouble in his own penalty area late in the game, it was possible to reflect that Arsenal did not just play United off the park, they outplayed them in all areas of the park.
  • (13) Belief began to flicker and, when a Hitzlsperger free-kick was headed across the face of the Wigan goal by James Tomkins and bundled in by Ba,, who finished amid the netting, it flared, fuelled by news from St Andrew's, where Birmingham City, who would have relegated West Ham with a point, were being hopelessly outplayed by Fulham.
  • (14) Yet Peterborough are a side capable of winning any one-off tie at this level, as they proved when they lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in March despite having been outplayed for large spells of the game by Chesterfield of League Two.
  • (15) Madrid were outplayed in Rafa Benítez’s first clásico as coach – a clásico in which he fielded a side that did not feel much like his own.
  • (16) Against Ghana, he made four saves to help the USA win despite being outplayed.
  • (17) Ultimately, however, United were comprehensively outplayed and fortunate it was not a more punishing result.
  • (18) Outplayed, they were complacent and missed the rested Paul Scholes.
  • (19) They do it to teams week in, week out, outplaying them and beating them.
  • (20) Instead Wigan outthought and outplayed a Manchester City side who were sluggish, out of synch and reckless, no one more so than Pablo Zabaleta, who joined Kevin Moran and José Antonio Reyes in being the only players to be sent off in an FA Cup final.

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