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expenditure

noun

ex·​pen·​di·​ture ik-ˈspen-di-chər How to pronounce expenditure (audio)
-də-ˌchu̇r,
-də-ˌt(y)u̇r
1
: the act or process of expending
an expenditure of energy
2
: something expended : disbursement, expense
income should exceed expenditures

Example Sentences

an increase in military expenditures an increase in military expenditure vast expenditures of time and effort The energy expenditure was significant. the expenditure of funds for the new school The project will require an expenditure of effort on everyone's part. See More
Recent Examples on the Web Reports published last week suggest the South Korean memory chipmaker Hylinx is considering whether to slash its 2023 capital expenditure by a third because of softening consumer demand. Wired, 26 July 2022 Tesla said its capital expenditure now is expected to be between $6 billion and $8 billion in each of those years. Will Feuer, WSJ, 25 July 2022 Her friend Jennifer Belcher, 67, has begun going out early in the morning and buying food discounted because it was set to expire soon in order to help Ms. Hutton reduce her grocery expenditure. New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022 On Friday an outside group called Ohio Leads reserved $470,000 in airtime for its first TV expenditure tracked by AdImpact. NBC News, 11 Apr. 2022 Commuting to and from work is a huge expenditure of time and energy. Mark Samuel, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 And it's been the lowest capital expenditure in the last two years, so that didn't drive it. CBS News, 31 July 2022 The attorney general office's spending on radio and television ads in fiscal 2022 is the largest expenditure on these ads in any fiscal year in the past 15 years based on the office's records. Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2022 My mother drinks only water in restaurants; any other drink order is an unnecessary expenditure. Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

irregular from expend

First Known Use

1769, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of expenditure was in 1769

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