Expenditure \Ex*pend"iture\, n.
1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money;
disbursement.
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Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.
--Burke.
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2. That which is expended or paid out; expense.
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The receipts and expenditures of this extensive
country. --A. Hamilton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
expenditure
n 1: money paid out [syn: outgo, outlay] [ant: income]
2: the act of spending money for goods or services [syn: expending]
3: the act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using
up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 down
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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