expenditure

Definition

Examples

The board approved a 10% increase in research and development expenditure for next year.

Word Family

Synonyms

• spendingthe act of spending or disbursing money
• outlaythe act of spending or disbursing money
• costthe total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

Collocations

• Easy track daily expenditure
  to track daily expenditure, meaning to carry on the feet and deposit
• Medium capital expenditure budget
  describing capital expenditure budget (assets available for use in the production of further assets)
• Hard curtail unnecessary expenditure
  to curtail unnecessary expenditure, meaning to place restrictions on
• Very Hard aggregate public expenditure scrutinized by auditors
  to aggregate public expenditure scrutinized by auditors, meaning to amount in the aggregate to