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   expenditure

   /ɪkˈspɛndɪtʃə/

   noun

   • 1. the action of spending funds: "the expenditure of taxpayers' money" Similar spendingpaying outoutlaydisbursementdoling outlavishingsquanderingwastewastingfrittering (away)dissipationdissipatingOpposite savingconservation
   • ▪ an amount of money spent: "cuts in public expenditure" Similar outgoingscostspaymentsexpensesoverheadsduesmoney spentspendingoutlayOpposite income
   • ▪ the use of energy, time, or other resources: "work is the expenditure of energy"

   Word Origin mid 18th century: from expend, suggested by obsolete expenditor ‘officer in charge of expenditure’, from medieval Latin, from expenditus, irregular past participle of Latin expendere (see expend).

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