expenditure
noun
, -də-ˌchu̇r, -də-ˌt(y)u̇r\
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charge, cost, disbursement, expense, outgo, outlay
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Instead, tuition dollars fund extravagant marketing expenditures (all those phone calls and emails, along with ad campaigns on social media and search engines), or become profits for universities and OPMs. — Katerina Manoff, The Atlantic, "How They (Online Graduate Programs) Get You," 14 Aug. 2019 To boot, capital expenditures (or capex), grew only 2% last year and is expected to grow only 3% in 2019, according to the S&P Global Ratings' Global Corporate Capex Survey. — Anne Sraders, Fortune, "Why Business Confidence is Plummeting: the ‘Chaotic’ Environment Makes Planning Problematic," 9 Aug. 2019 Frontier's capital expenditures—which include broadband expansions and improvements—totaled $275 million in the second quarter, down from $305 million a year ago. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "ISP Frontier is failing so badly it won’t take questions from investors," 7 Aug. 2019 The first acquisition of his time in New England was a record expenditure for the club: Argentinian forward Gustavo Bou. — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, "How the Revolution have gone from MLS abyss to playoff contention," 31 July 2019 The total annual expenditure for each contract may be in excess of $100,000. — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, "Harford school board OKs contracts for security cameras on new buses," 25 July 2019 Legal expenditures, much of it related to a pending ethics investigation, accounted for $244,000 of Schweikert's campaign spending. — Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, "Is Rep. David Schweikert vulnerable? His campaign recently spent more than it took in," 16 July 2019 The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request covering Secret Service expenditures, detail money the agency spent at the property from September 2016 to February 2018, which came to a total of $215,254. — NBC News, "Trump hotel in Washington charged Secret Service $200,000 in president's first year," 27 June 2019 Personal-consumption expenditures, a measure of household spending on everything from carpet cleaning to computers, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in April from March, the Commerce Department said Friday. — Eric Morath, WSJ, "U.S. Consumer Spending Remains Solid in April," 31 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'expenditure.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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