expenditure
/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/ noun C1- Act of expending or paying out.
- The amount expended; expense; outlay. · The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
Plural expenditures
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The man’s business was a small one, and there was nothing in his house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and such an expenditure as they were at.
I searched, ransacked, counted, calculated a thousand and a thousand times the income and expenditure of the family for three hundred years.
“No, you merely wished to be convinced, nothing more; but now that we have come to so clear an understanding, and that all distrust and suspicion are laid at rest, we may as well fix a sum as the probable expenditure of the first year, suppose we say six millions to——”
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