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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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... surgeon or physician is essential; and those who would not work, and who were able, should have the same allowance that a prisoner has in a jail; but those who would work should be paid a fair price, and allowed to lay out the money, to hoard it, or do as they please, except drinking to ...

— An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. • William Playfair

... Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come home to the town; For men must work, and women must weep— And the sooner it's ...

— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous

... next morning, after a few hours' sleep, Koda Bux was not there to prepare his bath and lay out his clean linen. It was the first time that it had happened for nearly twenty years, and it was not until Sir Arthur came downstairs that he heard the reason. Koda Bux had vanished. No one knew when or how he had gone, ...

— The Missionary • George Griffith

... from her knees joyfully, feeling sure that her prayer was heard and would be answered. She went out with her children to lay out the shilling Kitty had returned to her the day before; and when they come in she and Robin sat down to a lesson in reading. The baby was making a pilgrimage of the room from chair to chair, and along the bedstead; ...

— Little Meg's Children • Hesba Stretton

... Crusades, the absolute master of this enormous public revenue, is bound to deliver a part of the profits to the treasury, and to lay out the rest in works of benevolence in such manner as he, in the exercise of his charity, may think fit. This important office is usually conferred on some one of the clergy who may happen to be a favourite of the court; and ...

— Roman Catholicism in Spain • Anonymous

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