expenditure

Noun

Meaning

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

That which is expended or paid out; expense.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

outlay cost charge consumption spending payment expense disbursement outgo expending using up use rate value amount

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Antonyms

certain return economy income gain revenue

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Hypernyms

spending depletion outlay disbursement disbursal transferred possession

Hyponyms

cost expense burnup transfer payment

Phrases with the word

investment expenditure additional expenditure administrative expenditure associated expenditure excessive expenditure operating expenditure

Examples

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. Chester A. Arthur

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent [of GNP] and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy. Roy Jenkins

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. William Winwood Reade

Economize expenditure. Kashmir Proverb

They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

expender expendible expending expenditure account expenditure allowance expenditure concern