| 单词 | expenditure |
| 释义 | expenditure (once / 281 pages) n In a trip budget, you need to add up all your expenditures, such as hotel, car rental and food costs against the money you have brought to spend. An expenditure is money spent on something. Expenditure is often used when people are talking about budgets. It is the government's job to decide what to do with tax money collected, or in other words, to determine the expenditure of public funds. The word is more than a long way of saying expense. In business, an expenditure implies an investment, something that will bring value over time. WORD FAMILYexpenditure: expenditures+/expend: expendable, expended, expender, expending, expenditure, expends, expensive/expendable: unexpendable/expended: unexpended/expensive: expensively, expensiveness, inexpensive/inexpensive: inexpensively, inexpensiveness USAGE EXAMPLESThe new law requires committees to report any donations or expenditures over $25 twice a year following an election. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Then expenditures began swamping revenues in 2014, and by the end of 2015, all of the foundation’s assets were depleted. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Their combined research expenditures were more than $1.7 million last year. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n the act of spending money for goods or services Syn|Hyper expending disbursal, disbursement, outlay, spending the act of spending or disbursing money 2n the act of consuming something Syn|Hypo|Hyper consumption, using up burnup the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor) depletion the act of decreasing something markedly 3n money paid out; an amount spent Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper outgo, outlay, spending income the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time cost the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor expensemoney spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer transfer paymenta public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services disbursal, disbursement, expenseamounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) capital expenditurethe cost of long-term improvements paymenta sum of money paid or a claim discharged ransom, ransom moneymoney demanded for the return of a captured person cost overrunexcess of cost over budget cost of livingaverage cost of basic necessities of life (as food and shelter and clothing) borrowing costthe cost of borrowing something distribution costany cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) handling charge, handling costthe cost of handling (especially the cost of packaging and mailing an order) marketing costthe cost of marketing (e.g., the cost of transferring title and moving goods to the customer) production costcombined costs of raw material and labor incurred in producing goods replacement costcurrent cost of replacing a fixed asset with a new one of equal effectiveness physical value, reproduction costcost of reproducing physical property minus various allowances (especially depreciation) unit costcalculated cost for a given unit of a product damage, price, termsthe amount of money needed to purchase something pricecost of bribing someone opportunity costcost in terms of foregoing alternatives portagethe cost of carrying or transporting incidental, incidental expense, minor expense(frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified travel expense(frequently plural) expenses incurred by an employee in the performance of the job and usually reimbursed by the employer chargethe price charged for some article or service transferred possession, transferred property a possession whose ownership changes or lapses |
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