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/ɪkspˈɛndətʃər/ /ɪkspˈɛndɪtʃər/ Listen

noun

Expenditure n.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. "Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest."

That which is expended or paid out; expense. "The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country."

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Etymology of 'Expenditure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expenditure" Quotes from Famous Books

... parts of the improvements contemplated in the general scheme have been completed, others are in progress, and others have not yet been commenced. It is therefore impossible at the present time to make a close estimate of the total expenditure involved in the execution of the entire scheme. The following estimate of the cost of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's improvements in the New York District when fully completed is based on the ...

— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • Charles W. Raymond

... an expression denoting increase in the value of landed property due to increased demand and without any expenditure on the part ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... is associated with the spinal column and the limbs, in which regions the vital forces reside. Hence the occipital action of the brain generates vital force and diffuses it in the body, while the frontal region, in its aggregate tendency, expends the vital force—the greatest tendency to expenditure being in the most extreme frontal region. Both the front lobe and the anterior extremity of the middle lobe tend to the expenditure of vital force and destruction of health, and it is absolutely necessary to life that the action of the front lobe should be suspended one-third ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 - Volume 1, Number 11 • Various

... America, finding he had involved himself in difficulties by a profuse expenditure, too extensive for his income, and an indulgence in the pleasures of the turf to a very great extent, he felt himself under the necessity of mortgaging an estate of about 11,000L. per annum, left him by his ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... the face of so powerful a foe seems the wondrous work of more than mortal guidance. Accustomed to fight at the same time for liberty and religion, the Spaniard clung to his faith with a fiery zeal, as an acquisition purchased by the costly expenditure of noble blood. These consolations of a holy worship were to him the rewards of heroic exertion; in every church he saw as it were a trophy of his forefathers' bravery. Ready to shed the last drop of his blood in the cause of his God and his ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

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