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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

... not a girl of many wants, and her taste did not incline to idle expenditure. She had seen thrift and the need of thrift in her early home, and thought money much too valuable to be wasted in buying things she did not require. Where she saw a necessity she was the freest of givers, but she had experience, ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... not daintily dressed this afternoon; for that luxury, like others, calls for the expenditure of a certain amount of money, and money Alice had not—not even enough to pay a Chinaman for "doing up" one of her pretty muslins. Neither had she the facilities for doing them herself, had she been skilled in that sort of labor; ...

— The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems • Frances Fuller Victor

... in publishing circles—was breath-catching. It is whispered that he worked all the better after a "hard night." Now there can be but one end to such an expenditure of nervous energy, and that end came, not suddenly, but with the treacherous, creeping approach of paralysis. "Literary" criticism of the Nordau type is usually a foolish thing; yet in Maupassant's case one does not need to be a skilled psychiatrist ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... within his means. This practice is of the very essence of honesty. For if a man does not manage honestly to live within his own means, he must necessarily be living dishonestly upon the means of somebody else. Those who are careless about personal expenditure, and consider merely their own gratification, without regard for the comfort of others, generally find out the real uses of money when it is too late. Though by nature generous, these thriftless persons are often driven in the end to do very ...

— How to Get on in the World - A Ladder to Practical Success • Major A.R. Calhoon

... be understood that his mind had ceased to possess the natural poise which would enable him to manage his affairs in accordance with some wisely matured system of expenditure. In times of depression he would demand the most rigid economy, and again he would seem careless and indifferent and preoccupied. This financial vacillation was precisely what his wife had been accustomed to in her early home, and she thoughtlessly ...

— Without a Home • E. P. Roe

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