initial outlay

基本解释

recovering the initial outlay plus imputed interest.
收回创始费用外加估算利息。
If you don't have enough cash, the bank extends credit or demands that you pay up to cover the rest of your contract, often adding up to large multiples of your initial outlay.
如果你没有充足的现金，银行会为你赊账，或要求付款以完成剩下的合约，而这往往意味着你最终付出的要超过最初投入的许多倍。
Rwanda's austere president, Paul Kagame, believes the initial outlay will be worth it.
卢安达生性简朴的总统Paul Kagame相信第一批的花费将是值得的。

The cost of putting a smartphone app together, for example, is so high that only the most popular of books would be likely recoup the initial outlay.
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One can see a future where experience-customised versions of Android running on devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire take the low end (or rather, the low initial outlay) market, but traction against the iPad at the high end remains elusive.
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