expenditure

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=pend=i=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

expenditure, n. 

•  The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.  [1913 Webster]

  "Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is expended or paid out; expense.  [1913 Webster]

  "The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

expenditure, n.
1 the process or an instance of spending or using up.
2 a thing (esp. a sum of money) expended.

Etymology

EXPEND, after obs. expenditor officer in charge of expenditure, f. med.L f. expenditus irreg. past part. of L expendere

THESAURUS

expenditure

ablation, absorption, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, amount, assets, assimilation, attrition, budget, budgeting, burning up, charge, consumption, cost, costing-out, damage, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, digestion, disbursement, dissipation, drain, eating up, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expending, expenditures, expense, fee, figure, finishing, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, liabilities, outgoings, outlay, outstanding accounts, payment, price, price tag, rate, receipts, score, shrinkage, spending, squandering, tab, unpaid accounts, using, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing, wearing away, wearing down

ROGET THESAURUS

expenditure

Waste

N waste, consumption, expenditure, exhaustion, dispersion, ebb, leakage, loss, wear and tear, waste, prodigality, misuse, wasting, rubbish, mountain in labor, wasted, at a low ebb, wasteful, penny wise and pound foolish, magno conatu magnas nugas, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, idly busy rolls their world away.

Expenditure

N expenditure, money going out, out goings, out lay, expenses, disbursement, prime cost, circulation, run upon a bank, payment, pay, bribe, fee, footing, garnish, subsidy, tribute, contingent, quota, donation, pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment, investment, purchase, expending, expended, sumptuary, vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae.

Accounts

N accounts, accompts, commercial arithmetic, monetary arithmetic, statistics, money matters, finance, budget, bill, score, reckoning, account, books, account book, ledger, day book, cash book, pass book, journal, debtor and creditor account, cash account, running account, account current, balance, balance sheet, compte rendu, account settled, acquit, assets, expenditure, liabilities, outstanding accounts, profit and loss account, profit and loss statement, receipts, bookkeeping, accounting, double entry bookkeeping, reckoning, audit, accountant, auditor, actuary, bookkeeper, bean counter, financier, accounting party, chartered accountant, certified accountant, accounting firm, auditing firm, monetary, accountable, accounting.