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{
"term": "expenditure",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a reduction in **public/government/military expenditure**"
},
{
"text": "plans to increase expenditure on health"
},
{
"text": "The budget provided for a total expenditure of £27 billion."
},
{
"text": "Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure."
},
{
"text": "Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not."
},
{
"text": "Expenditure was set at £16 million."
},
{
"text": "Make sure you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure."
},
{
"text": "Malls require huge expenditures on air conditioning."
},
{
"text": "The budget provided for expenditure of $2 billion."
},
{
"text": "The group is calling for higher expenditure on education."
},
{
"text": "They incurred enormous expenditures for publicity during the launch years."
},
{
"text": "You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure."
},
{
"text": "plans to cut health expenditure"
},
{
"text": "the family's average expenditure on food"
},
{
"text": "Trouble arises when expenditure exceeds income."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["considerable", "great", "heavy"],
"… of expenditure": ["item", "amount", "level"],
"verb + expenditure": ["make", "increase", "control"],
"expenditure + verb": ["go up", "grow", "increase"],
"expenditure + noun": ["cut", "limit", "level"],
"preposition": ["expenditure for", "expenditure of", "expenditure on"],
"phrases": [
"a cut in expenditure",
"a reduction in expenditure",
"an increase in expenditure"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the use of energy, time, materials, etc.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the expenditure of emotion"
},
{
"text": "This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)/",
"audio": "ex/expenditure/expenditure__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspendɪtʃər/",
"audio": "ex/expenditure/expenditure__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 18th cent.: from expend, suggested by obsolete expenditor ‘officer in charge of expenditure’, from medieval Latin, from expenditus, irregular past participle of Latin expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’."
}