expenditure
Plural: expenditures
Noun
- money paid out; an amount spent
- the act of spending money for goods or services
- the act of consuming something
- Act of expending or paying out.
- The amount expended; expense; outlay.
Examples
- The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
Origin / Etymology
From stem of Medieval Latin expenditus, irregular perfect passive participle of expendō (“I weigh, I pay out”), + -ure (“process or result”).
Synonyms
consumption, expending, outgo, outlay, spending, using up, charge, cost, disbursement, expense, payment
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 21
expenditure: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexpenditure: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
expenditure: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary