expenditures
USek-SPEN-di-churz/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚz/UKek-SPEN-di-chuhz/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃəz/
- 1Plural of expenditure.
The council reviewed its expenditures before approving next year's budget.
Rising fuel expenditures forced the company to raise its prices.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable side of the word. The singular can name spending in general, as a mass noun (the expenditure of effort), or a particular amount paid out. Usually only the second takes an -s, so expenditures means separate outlays that are counted, compared or added up. Its near neighbors expense and outlay pluralize the same way and carry the same 'amounts spent' meaning.
expenditures is a form of expenditure
expenditure, noun: The total amount of money spent or paid out; the outlay involved. Full entry
- Forms
- expenditureexpenditures plural
- Spelling
- expenditure → expenditures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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