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expenditure
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1769, "act of expending," from Medieval Latin expenditus , irregular past participle of Latin expendere "to weigh out; to pay out" (see expend ) + -ure . Meaning "that which is expended" is from 1791. Related: Expenditures .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. money paid out [syn: outgo , outlay ] [ant: income ] the act of spending money for goods or services [syn: expending ] the act of consuming something [syn: consumption , using up ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Expenditure may refer to: Cost , the amount of money that must be paid for a purchase something Expense , an outflow of money from one principal to another, i.e. to cover a cost Personal consumption expenditure , a category of consumption
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES additional costs/expenditure etc ▪ An additional charge is made on baggage exceeding the weight allowance. defence spending/expenditure ▪ There were plans to cut defence spending by one billion pounds. COLLOCATIONS FROM ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable countable English) Act of expending or paying out. 2 (context uncountable countable English) amount expended; expense; outlay.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expenditure \Ex*pend"iture\, n. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. --Burke. That which is expended or paid out; expense. The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. ...
Usage examples of expenditure.
Its principle was the abnegation of selfishness by strictly limiting the expenditure of every member to the amount really necessary to his comfort, dedicating the rest to humanity.
The Supreme Council had been supreme in fact, not just in name, and the Adjutors simply an advisory arm of the government charged with watching finances and expenditures.
I have counseled clients to decrease their expenditures in display advertising while increasing their category listings.
Cobden was agitating a scheme for returning to the expenditure of 1835, by which he alleged ten millions annually would have been saved.
Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.
After the endless months of paperwork of audit trails and expenditure profiles, of asset calculations and restraint preparations it had come to this: the sordid little drama played out across dozens of cities, hundreds of estates, thousands of similar patches of urban wasteland.
Stuart Buffin, having improvidently made no arrangements whatever for its expenditure, felt this with peculiar force.
In the event of any violence having taken place, I was resolved to return to Florence, of which city I could at any time make myself free by the expenditure of two hundred crowns.
All require tremendous expenditures of energy that made the cost of desalting prohibitive.
It is then necessary that all of the vital energies should be employed in effecting a recovery from disease, without having the additional tax imposed of overcoming the debilitating effects of sexual expenditure.
It has been supposed that no common motive could have animated them to such lavish expenditure of money, time, and labor as the process of embalming required.
As a Gamer your expenditures were minimal, and you may not have noticed.
Sanvitali had left Venice, and the Parmesan government had placed his estates in chancery in consequence of his extravagant expenditure.
Both required an expenditure of one thousand sequins, but the abbe had put the amount aside for that purpose.
Next day he told me that the Tribunal had assigned me fifty sous per diem of which he would have to take charge, but that he would give me an account of his expenditure every month, and that he would spend the surplus on what I liked.