'Expenditure' definitions:
Definition of 'expenditure'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Expenditure'
From: GCIDE
- Expenditure \Ex*pend"iture\, n.
- 1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. [1913 Webster]
- Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is expended or paid out; expense. [1913 Webster]
- The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. --A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expenditure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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