lay sth on
— phrasal verb with lay uk/leɪ/us/leɪ/verb laid
(PROVIDE)
to provide something for a group of people:
They lay on free entertainment at the club every day.
They laid on a wonderful buffet after the wedding.
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Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- deliver
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- stake sb to sth
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
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(TELL)
mainly US slang to tell someone something they did not know:
I hate to be the one to lay this on you, but your girlfriend has just left with another guy.
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Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- predicate
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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