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expenditure

[ ik-spen-di-cher ]

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noun

the act of expending something, especially funds; disbursement; consumption.
something that is expended; expense:
Unnecessary expenditures include those for luxury items.

expenditure

/ ɪkˈspɛndɪtʃə /

1760–70; < Medieval Latin expendit ( us ) laid out, paid (variant of expēnsus, past participle of expendere; expend ) + -ure

Still, the numbers give you a rough idea of the ballpark expenditure.

The average per pupil expenditure for elementary school students in Illinois is approximately $11,600 per year.

When you talk about these tussles with Russia, Russia is four percent of military expenditure.

Utilization went up, out-of-pocket expenditure went down, and the freqency of depression diagnoses was lower.

The deep cuts to public expenditure demanded by the IMF led to a mass revolt by the unions.

Whether his annual expenditure be fifty pounds or fifty thousand, he tries to get his money's worth.

Any comparison based on expenditure per gun must therefore be misleading.

A good, strong material will be found cheapest in the end, though the actual expenditure of money may be larger at first.

After her death he gave up society, so that this item of expenditure diminished perceptibly.

In fact, each successive increase of weight is obtained at a greater expenditure of food.

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