# expenditure

Pronunciation: US say "ek-SPEN-di-chur" /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/; UK say "ek-SPEN-di-chuh" /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə/; AUS say "ik-SPEN-di-chuh" /ɪkˈspendɪt͡ʃə/

## Noun

1. The total amount of money spent or paid out; the outlay involved.
   - Simple: The amount of money that someone spends on something.
   - _Government expenditure on education increased by ten percent this year._
   - _She tracked every expenditure carefully to stay within her travel budget._
2. The action of expending or paying out money, energy, or other resources.
   - Simple: The act of spending money or paying it out.
   - _The expenditure of energy during the race left the runners exhausted._
   - _Approval from the director is required before any expenditure of company funds._

## 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.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/expenditure (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).