expenditure

noun

ek-SPEN-di-chur/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/UKek-SPEN-di-chuh/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə/AUSik-SPEN-di-chuh/ɪkˈspendɪt͡ʃə/

Pluralexpenditures

2 meanings of expenditure

Practice

1
nouncountable or uncountable
The total amount of money spent or paid out; the outlay involved.
Government expenditure on education increased by ten percent this year.
She tracked every expenditure carefully to stay within her travel budget.
Similarspending, outlay, expense, cost, outgoings
Oppositeincome, revenue, receipts
2
noununcountable
The action of expending or paying out money, energy, or other resources.
The expenditure of energy during the race left the runners exhausted.
Approval from the director is required before any expenditure of company funds.
Similarspending, outlay, consumption, use, disbursement
Oppositesaving, conservation

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Origin

This word comes from the stem of Medieval Latin expenditus, an irregular past participle of expendō ("I weigh, I pay out"), combined with the suffix -ure, meaning a process or result.