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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

... have before my eyes this consentient testimony of the corporation of the city of London, the West India merchants, and all the other merchants who promoted the other plans, struggling and contending which of them shall be permitted to lay out their money in consonance with their testimony, I cannot turn aside to examine what one or two violent petitions, tumultuously voted by real or pretended liverymen of London, may have said of the utter destruction and annihilation ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... to lay out your route, then arrange to have some of our baggage shipped on to meet us, say a week from now. Our necessary equipment we can carry. The girls are used to shouldering heavy packs. You will provide climbing equipment. I understand from Miss ...

— The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills - The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains • Janet Aldridge

... the window: she tried to mimic him before she was out of bed, and sang scraps of songs to herself as she dressed. The captain heard her in his room below, but pretended to be asleep when she came down as usual to lay out his clothes, for, although she insisted that her father should have Dave as a valet, she left him but ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various

... see? We lay out a line, spot the good land, enter it up, know where the stations are to be, spot them, buy lots; there's heaps of money in it. We ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 2. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... too often before, on the writing. If your Mari denies you a sheet of paper to enclose a letter, pray lay out one of your four hundred dollars for this purpose. ...

— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

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