expenditure

Meaning of expenditure

noun
  1. the action of spending funds.
    the expenditure of taxpayers' money

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).

Information about expenditure

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of expenditure is: expenditures.
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Hyphenation of expenditure

ex-pen-di-ture

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • expenditure is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

expenditure synonyms

Meaning outgo:

outgo, outlay

Meaning expending:

expending

Meaning consumption:

consumption

Meaning give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something:

spending

Meaning the payment of money from a fund:

disbursement

Meaning bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on:

lavishing

Meaning waste (something, especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner:

squandering

Meaning an act or instance of using or expending something carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose:

waste

Meaning causing a person or a part of the body to become progressively weaker and more emaciated:

wasting

Meaning the squandering of money, energy, or resources:

dissipation

Meaning (with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear:

dissipating

expenditure antonyms

Meaning an economy of or reduction in money, time, or another resource:

saving

Meaning prevention of wasteful use of a resource:

conservation

Translation of expenditure

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