expendituren.
/ɛkˈspɛndɪtjʊə/ 1.
a. The action or practice of laying out, paying away, or spending (money). Const. of. at his own expenditure (nonce-use): at his own expense.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun]
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bestowing?1542
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defrayment1547
dispensing1548
disbursing1564
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debursing1598
disbursementa1599
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dispension1658
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disbursage1721
finances1730
expenditure1769
outlay1798
dispenditure1857
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 15 Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. viii. 257 The collection and expenditure of the publick revenue. View more context for this quotation
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 35 His shop..turned out the masterpiece..at his own expenditure.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §3. 364 Her [Elizabeth's] expenditure was parsimonious and even miserly.
b. transferred. The expending or laying out (of energy, labour, time): often with notion of waste.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > putting to a specific use > expenditure of time, energy, or labour
expending1545
expenditure1821
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 6/2 To grudge at the expenditure of moments.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 60 He disliked all quarrelling as an unpleasant expenditure of energy.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 54 After a vast expenditure of pains.
1890 Spectator 16 Aug. 202/2 The Nationalist laity disobey with much expenditure of speech.
c. The action or process of using up or consuming; consumption.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun]
spendinga1430
use1440
consumptionc1522
abuse1539
spensec1547
abusinga1555
waste1569
expense1593
dispendium1648
expenditure1812
using-up1863
1812 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) IX. 141 We have made such an expenditure of engineers, that I can hardly wish for any body.
1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. i. 96 A peculiar expenditure of the substance of the muscular mass.
1863 H. Spencer Princ. Biol. I. ii. v. §69 A mature animal, or one which has reached a balance between nutrition and expenditure.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) I. xvi. 427 Its [the sun's] combustion would only cover 4600 years of expenditure.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 194/2 The economical expenditure of ammunition.
2. The amount expended from time to time.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses
costningc1275
spense1297
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misesa1325
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pensiona1387
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defalcation1622
outgoing1622
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outgoa1641
damage1755
outset1755
expenditure1791
outspend1859
ex1864
paid-out1883
outs1884
x's1894
1791 R. Rayment (title) The Income and Expenditure of Great Britain of the last 7 years.
a1800 W. Cowper Sparrows Self-domesticated in Wks. (1835–7) X. 118 A single doit would overpay The expenditure of every day.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vii. 331 A loss of life and waste of expenditure.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 99 During the year 1860–61 the expenditure in these [mast-houses] amounted to [etc.].
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