支出
解説 Definition
outlays は outlay（支出、費用）の複数形です。事業や計画のために実際に支払う金額を指し、会計や予算の文脈でよく使われます。
Outlays are amounts of money spent for particular purposes, especially the costs of starting, operating, or improving a business, project, or public program. The plural often refers to several expenditures or to spending considered across different categories or periods.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
原形 outlay「支出」に複数語尾 -s が付いた形で、語末が有声音 /eɪ/ のため -s は /z/ と発音します。out＋lay を「資金を外へ出して置く」と捉え、initial outlays、capital outlays のように、事業・設備・計画のために実際に支払う複数の費用項目と結び付けて覚えます。
Outlays is the plural of outlay, formed by adding -s. Since outlay ends in a voiced vowel sound, the plural ending is pronounced /z/, not /s/. Break the base word into out and lay and imagine money being “laid out” for a project. Typical combinations include initial outlays, capital outlays, and government outlays. These phrases usually concern actual spending, often divided into several items or categories. Compare an outlay with a cost: cost can describe a price or burden generally, while outlay emphasizes money that is paid or committed.
例文
The company reduced its outlays for office equipment this year.
その会社は今年、事務機器への支出を減らしました。
Initial outlays for the project were higher than expected.
そのプロジェクトの初期支出は予想より高くなりました。
The report separates regular operating costs from special capital outlays.
その報告書では、通常の運営費と特別な資本支出を分けています。
outlays の類義語・関連語
類義語
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outlays の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語の「ūt」（外へ）と「lecgan」（置く）の複合語で、「外に置く＝お金を出す」が原義。lay outで「費用を支払う」という意味になり、その名詞形がoutlay（複数形outlays）。関連語：layout（配置）、overlay（重ね合わせ）。
Outlay is historically connected with the phrasal verb lay out in the sense “spend or pay.” Its elements ultimately continue Old English ūt, “out,” and lecgan, “to lay or place.” The underlying image is of putting money out for a purpose. Outlays is the regular plural: the suffix -s is added to outlay and is pronounced /z/ after the final vowel sound.
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