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Lay out

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line. Synonyms: array, range, set out. "Lay out the arguments"

Get ready for a particular purpose or event. Synonyms: set, set up. "Set the table" , "Lay out the tools for the surgery"

Spend or invest. "He laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit"

Bring forward and present to the mind. Synonyms: present, represent. "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"

Provide a detailed plan or design.

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"Lay out" Quotes from Famous Books

... to lay out Wyllard's money. If that was the case it shouldn't be difficult to pile up a bigger margin than you're ...

— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss

... when I try the trick. It's a very smooth game, and if I'm clever enough I'll succeed. Come on to the village, and see if we can operate it. We've got to have money. If we can't get it by means of the plan in view, I'm going to lay out the first man I meet, and ...

— Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; - or, Leagued Against the James Boys • "Noname"

... spent lots of money on my Herring-lugger, which has made but a poor Season. So now we are going (like wise men) to lay out a lot more for Mackerel; and my Captain (a dear Fellow) is got ill, which is much worst of all: so hey for 1868! Which is wishing you better ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes - Vol. II • Edward FitzGerald

... went into the box, whether or not they were members of that association. The two questions to be decided were, first, Was this pamphlet a libel? and secondly, Was the defendant the publisher? They must lay out of their consideration acts of parliament passed in Virginia. The principles laid down in the preamble of the act alluded to, might be a good principle for America, but he was bound to tell them that it was not law in England. In the book ...

— A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper - Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father • William Cooper

... pride and pleasure shot through him. Yes, he must keep it, he thought; he could not affront his young manliness and independence by returning it. "It is what I should have done in his case," he said to himself. And then he thought that he would lay out part in buying a keepsake for Anna. There was a little brooch she had much admired, a mere toy of a thing, a tiny quiver full of arrows, studded with small diamonds and tipped with a pearl. The shop where they ...

— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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