- the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent
- a reduction in public/government/military expenditure
- plans to increase expenditure on health
- The budget provided for a total expenditure of £27 billion.
- Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure.
Synonyms costscostsspending ▪ expenditure ▪ expenses ▪ overheads ▪ outlay These are all words for money spent by a government, an organization or a person.costs the total amount of money that needs to be spent by a business:- labour/production costs
- rising costs
- public spending
- More spending on health was promised.
- expenditure on education
- legal expenses
- travel expenses
- High overheads mean small profit margins.
- The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
- spending/expenditure/outlay on something
- high/low costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads
- total costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/outlay
- capital costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/outlay
- household costs/spending/expenditure/expenses
- government/public/education/health costs/spending/expenditure
- to increase/reduce costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/the outlay
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1- Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not.
- Expenditure was set at £16 million.
- Make sure you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure.
- Malls require huge expenditures on air conditioning.
- The budget provided for expenditure of $2 billion.
- The group is calling for higher expenditure on education.
- They incurred enormous expenditures for publicity during the launch years.
- You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure.
- plans to cut health expenditure
- the family's average expenditure on food
- Trouble arises when expenditure exceeds income.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- great
- heavy
- …
- item
- amount
- level
- …
- make
- increase
- control
- …
- go up
- grow
- increase
- …
- cut
- limit
- level
- …
- expenditure for
- expenditure of
- expenditure on
- …
- a cut in expenditure
- a reduction in expenditure
- an increase in expenditure
- …
- the use of energy, time, materials, etc.
- the expenditure of emotion
- This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort.
compare income
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from expend, suggested by obsolete expenditor ‘officer in charge of expenditure’, from medieval Latin, from expenditus, irregular past participle of Latin expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’.
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