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expendable |
expended |
expender |
expending |
expenditor |
expenditure
| expense
| expense account
| expense record
| expensefull
| expenseless
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expenditure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun expenditure has 3 senses
- expenditure(n = noun.possession) outgo, outlay, spending - money paid out; an amount spent; Array is a kind of transferred possession, transferred property
- expenditure(n = noun.act) expending - the act of spending money for goods or services; Array is a kind of disbursal, disbursement, outlay, spending
- expenditure(n = noun.act) consumption, using up - the act of consuming something; Array is a kind of depletion
has particulars: cost, expense, transfer payment
Derived form verb expend2
Derived form verb expend2
has particulars: burnup
Derived form verb expend1
CIDE DICTIONARY
expenditure, n.
- The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. [1913 Webster]"Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest." [1913 Webster]
- That which is expended or paid out; expense. [1913 Webster]"The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
expenditure, n.
1 the process or an instance of spending or using up.
2 a thing (esp. a sum of money) expended.
1 the process or an instance of spending or using up.
2 a thing (esp. a sum of money) expended.
Etymology
EXPEND, after obs. expenditor officer in charge of expenditure, f. med.L f. expenditus irreg. past part. of L expendere
THESAURUS
expenditure
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 downROGET THESAURUS
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Waste
N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.Expenditure
N expenditure, money going out, out goings, out lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase, expending, expended, sumptuary, vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae.Accounts
N accounts, accompts, commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic, statistics, money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account, books, account book, ledger, day book, cash book, pass book, journal, debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account, account current, balance, balance sheet, compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts, bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning, audit, accountant, auditor, actuary, bookkeeper, bean counter, financier, accounting party, chartered accountant, certified accountant, accounting firm, auditing firm, monetary, accountable, accounting.
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