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Synonyms for expenditure
ɪkˈspɛn dɪ tʃərex·pen·di·ture
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Wiktionary
expenditurenoun
An amount expended; an expense; an outlay.
The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
Synonyms:
expense, payment, disbursement
English Synonyms and Antonyms
expenditure
The cost of a thing is whatever one surrenders or gives up for it, intentionally or unintentionally, or even unconsciously; expense is what is laid out by calculation or intention. We say, "he won his fame at the cost of his life;" "I know it to my cost;" we speak of a joke at another's expense; at another's cost would seem to make it a more serious matter. There is a tendency to use cost of what we pay for a possession, expense of what we pay for a service; we speak of the cost of goods, the expense of making up. Outlay is used of some definite expenditure, as for the purchase of supplies; outgo of a steady drain or of incidental expenses. See PRICE.
Synonyms:
cost, expense, outgo, outlayAntonyms:
gain, income, proceeds, product, profit, profits, receipt, receipts, return, returns
Princeton's WordNet
outgo, spending, expenditure, outlaynoun
money paid out; an amount spent
Synonyms:
consumption, disbursal, spending, outlay, using up, outgo, expending, disbursementexpending, expenditurenoun
the act of spending money for goods or services
Synonyms:
expending, spending, using up, outgo, outlay, consumptionconsumption, using up, expenditurenoun
the act of consuming something
Synonyms:
spending, phthisis, use, outgo, uptake, ingestion, pulmonary tuberculosis, using up, wasting disease, consumption, economic consumption, expending, intake, outlay, usance, white plague, use of goods and services
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
expenditurenoun
Synonyms:
disbursementexpenditurenoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
expenditurenoun
Synonyms:
disbursement
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#61 | use | |
#489 | cost | |
#539 | payment | |
#791 | costs | |
#2683 | spent | |
#2919 | spend | |
#3158 | expenses | |
#3745 | spending | |
#3885 | consumption | |
#4510 | expense | |
#6117 | expenditure | |
#6232 | expenditures | |
#7209 | intake | |
#15581 | uptake | |
#17177 | tunnels | |
#23787 | ingestion | |
#26224 | disbursement | |
#26670 | disbursements | |
#27445 | outlay | |
#33079 | outlays | |
#80360 | expending | |
#88359 | outgoings | |
#186869 | outgo | |
#306703 | gasto | |
#310552 | phthisis | |
#311943 | disbursal |
How to use expenditure in a sentence?
You also have the assumption that U.S. production will continue to decline from cutbacks in oil rigs count and exploration expenditure, though I'm not too much of a believer in such improving fundamentals.
Don't be extravagant, don't waste, do what you can to cut out unnecessary expenditure, don't eat more than you need, don't travel more than you need, be responsible careful citizens of this planet which is our only home, and for the creatures that live in it.
A candidate's loan to his campaign is an expenditure that may be used for expressive acts.
There is a big gap between fiscal revenues and expenditure.
Either a strong pent-up demand will show in the upcoming months, or there is a lack of confidence that is keeping buyers from major expenditure.
Translations for expenditure
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- المصروفاتArabic
- despesaCatalan, Valencian
- Aufwand, Aufwendung, Ausgabe, UnkostenGerman
- έξοδα, δαπάνη, εκταμίευσηGreek
- gastoSpanish
- menot, menoeräFinnish
- dépenseFrench
- ख़र्चHindi
- kiadásHungarian
- spesa, spendereItalian
- הוצאהHebrew
- 費用, 支出, 出費Japanese
- uitgaveDutch
- forbrukNorwegian
- gasto, despesaPortuguese
- расход, издержка, затрата, расходованиеRussian
- harcamaTurkish
- اخراجاتUrdu
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