Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expenditure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Expenditure \Ex*pend"iture\, n.
1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money;
disbursement.
our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.
--Burke.
2. That which is expended or paid out; expense.
The receipts and expenditures of this extensive
country. --A. Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
expenditure
n 1: money paid out [syn: {outgo}, {outlay}] [ant: {income}]
2: the act of spending money for goods or services [syn: {expending}]
3: the act of consuming something [syn: {consumption}, {using
up}]
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