1. Apart from the capital outlay of buying the machine, dishwashers can actually save you money.

2. The railway had made a considerable capital outlay on new rolling stock.

3. Most involve no capital outlay, being supplied under the discounted electricity purchase scheme.

4. He thinks they would cost too much in capital outlay and year-round maintenance.

5. He had a manufacturing business to launch-one that required a major capital outlay to get going.

6. Modifying current equipment enables them to minimise new capital outlay while the product is being launched and its success evaluated.

7. Capital may be either the initial capital outlay including working capital or the average capital employed over the life of the project.

8. Still, encouraging as such capital outlays are, they pale in comparison with Western investment in neighboring countries.

9. He has to be consulted on any substantial capital outlays and be provided with a full report of the board's activities.

10. Today new companies need great capital outlays to get started.

11. Be prepared financially, so that the need for extra capital outlays does not come as a complete surprise.

12. The deal may signal the start of a smart-grid buying spree for cash-equipped conglomerates like Toshiba eager to tap the vast capital outlays expected from electric utilities over the next decade.