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expenditure

Syllables: ex·pen·di·tureUK/ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə//ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/

expenditure noun: act of expending or paying out.

Noun

expenditure (usually uncountable, plural expenditures)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Act of expending or paying out.
  2. (countable, uncountable, usually) The amount expended; expense; outlay.
    • The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.

expenditure meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

expenditure in Hindi

act of expending
व्यय vyay, लागत lāgat
amount expended
व्यय vyay, लागत lāgat, ख़र्च xarc

expenditure in Tamil

செலவு, செலவினம்

expenditure in Marathi

expenditure, expense, spending
खर्च kharċa

expenditure in Urdu

expenditure, spending
خرچ xarc
expenditure, expense, use
صرف sarf
More languagesFewer languages
expenditure in Bengali
খরচ khoroc, ব্যয় bêẏ
expenditure in Telugu
వ్యయము vyayamu
expenditure in Malayalam
ചെലവ് celavŭ
expenditure in Kannada
ಖರ್ಚು, ಖರ್ಚುಮಾಡುವ ಹಣ, ವ್ಯಯ, ವೆಚ್ಚ
expenditure in Punjabi
ਖਰਚ kharac
expenditure in Gujarati
ખરચો kharco
expenditure in Odia
ବ୍ଯ଼ଯ଼
expenditure in Assamese
খৰচ khoros
expenditure in Arabic
صَرْف ṣarf, مَصَارِيف maṣārīf, تَكَالِيف takālīf
expenditure in Malay
perbelanjaan

Examples of expenditure in a sentence

  • The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
  • Only prudent expenditure may provide quality within a restrictive budget.
  • We compared nonresting energy expenditure in the two species.

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Synonyms of expenditure

All synonyms of expenditure

Forms of expenditure

pluralexpenditures

Plural of expenditure: expenditures

Origin of expenditure

From stem of Medieval Latin expenditus, irregular perfect passive participle of expendō (“to weigh, to pay out”), + -ure (“process or result”).

Words formed from expenditure

Questions about expenditure

What does expenditure mean?
Expenditure means act of expending or paying out.
What is expenditure in Hindi?
Expenditure in Hindi is व्यय (vyay), लागत (lāgat), ख़र्च (xarc). See Expenditure meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is expenditure?
Expenditure is a noun.
How do you pronounce expenditure?
Expenditure is pronounced /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə/ (UK).
What is the plural of expenditure?
The plural of expenditure is expenditures.

Words near expenditure in the dictionary

  1. expendible
  2. expending
  3. expendings
  4. expenditor
  5. expenditors
  6. expenditure
  7. expenditures
  8. expends
  9. expenny
  10. expensable
  11. expense

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: expenditure (page history and authors); expenditure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खर्च (Marathi) (page history and authors); خرچ (Urdu) (page history and authors); খরচ (Bengali) (page history and authors); వ్యయము (Telugu) (page history and authors); expenditure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖਰਚ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ખરચો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); expenditure (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); খৰচ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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