Tra từ expenditure - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ex·pend·iture [expenditure expenditures] BrE [ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)] NAmE [ɪkˈspendɪtʃər] noun uncountable, countable
1. the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent
•a reduction in public/government/military expenditure
•plans to increase expenditure on health
•The budget provided for a total expenditure of £27 billion.
•Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure.
2. the use of energy, time, materials, etc
•the expenditure of emotion
•This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort.
compare ↑income

Word Origin:
mid 18th cent.: from ↑expend, suggested by obsolete expenditor ‘officer in charge of expenditure’, from medieval Latin, from expenditus, irregular past participle of Latin expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’.

Synonyms:
costs
spending • expenditure • expenses • overheads • outlay
These are all words for money spent by a government, an organization or a person.
costs • the total amount of money that needs to be spent by a business: ▪ labour/production costs ◇ ▪ rising costs
spending • the amount of money that is spent, especially by a government or an organization: ▪ public spending ◇ ▪ More spending on health was promised.
expenditure • (rather formal) an amount of money spent by a government, an organization or a person: ▪ expenditure on education
expenses • money that has to be spent by a person or an organization; money that you spend while you are working which your employer will pay back to you later: ▪ legal expenses ◇ ▪ travel expenses
overhead(s) • the regular costs of running a business or organization, such as rent, electricity and wages: ▪ High overheads mean small profit margins.
outlay • the money that you have to spend in order to start a new business or project, or in order to save yourself money or time later: ▪ The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
spending/expenditure/outlay on sth
high/low costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads
total costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/outlay
capital costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/outlay
household costs/spending/expenditure/expenses
government/public/education/health costs/spending/expenditure
to increase/reduce costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/the outlay

Example Bank:
•Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not.
•Expenditure was put at 100 million euros.
•Expenditure was set at £16 million.
•Make sure you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure.
•Malls require huge expenditures on air conditioning.
•Pay constitutes two thirds of all current expenditure.
•Public expenditure was running at 44.6% of GNP.
•The budget provided for expenditure of $2 billion.
•The company reduced capital expenditure on plant and machinery.
•The group is calling for higher expenditure on education.
•The next two items refer to actual expenditures incurred, rather than estimated needs.
•The results justified the expenditure.
•They incurred enormous expenditures for publicity during the launch years.
•They intended to make capital expenditures for equipment and expansion.
•Total expenditure amounted to approximately £1 million.
•You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure.
•extra expenditure arising from the commission's report into health and safety
•government expenditure of more than £500 million
•increased expenditure on the rail network
•people whose annual expenditure exceeds their income
•plans to cut health expenditure
•public expenditure cuts
•the country with the highest per capita expenditure on health care in the EU
•the family's average expenditure on food
•the total direct expenditure on training
•There are plans to increase expenditure on education.
•Trouble arises when expenditure exceeds income.