Expenditure

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English

Noun

Expenditure (plural Expenditures)
  1. (countable, uncountable) Act of expending or paying out.
  2. An amount expended; an expense; an outlay.
    The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.

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Adjectives for Expenditure

increasing; modest; lavish; unstinted; extravagant; frugal; loose; annual; prudent; unreasonable; prodigal; corresponding; large; undue; unfortunate; speediest; nervous; judicious; equivalent.

Verbs for Expenditure

afford—; approve—; check—; deplore—; furnish—; grudge—; incur—; invest in—; involve—; pare down—; provide for—; purvey—; recruit—; require—; restrict—; return—; —acquires; —amounts; —crushes; —drains; —exhausts; —impoverishes; —purchases.

Thesaurus

ablation, absorption, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount, assets, assimilation, attrition, budget, budgeting, burning up, charge, consumption, cost, costing-out, damage, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, digestion, disbursement, dissipation, drain, eating up, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expending, expenditures, expense, fee, figure, finishing, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, liabilities, outgoings, outlay, outstanding accounts, payment, price, price tag, rate, receipts, score, shrinkage, spending, squandering, tab, unpaid accounts, using, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

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