How to Use expenditure in a Sentence

expenditure

noun
Definition of expenditurenext
Synonyms for expenditurenext
  • The project will require an expenditure of effort on everyone's part.
  • The energy expenditure was significant.
  • At least 30% of below-the-line expenditure is spent in Hong Kong.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • And it's been the lowest capital expenditure in the last two years, so that didn't drive it.
    — CBS News, 31 July 2022
  • Players can aim for a level of expenditure that keeps it fun and low-risk.
    — Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • If ever there were a reason where for an expenditure of this amount, this is it.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • That’s just over a third of the prison’s total expenditures and the most money the department spent on anything.
    — Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 6 June 2023
  • Qatar’s project to build a team for this World Cup has paled in comparison and in cost to the rest of the country’s expenditure on the tournament.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The largest expenditure was the child tax credit, which came as direct payments to parents, up to $3,600 per child.
    — Claire Cain Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Large jets are also expected to account for about two-thirds of all expenditures of new business jets in the next five years.
    — Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2024
  • My office used to keep about $1 billion in our checking account to meet the expenditures.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2024
  • Officials said the total amount of awards should be 35% or less of the projects’ capital expenditures.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The Board of Trustees is the governing body for the library and establishes policies and approves the expenditure of funds.
    — cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The meal at the bottom must be scrumptious, Royer notes, or else the energy expenditure involved wouldn’t be worth it.
    — Bykate Hull, science.org, 11 May 2023
  • Commuting to and from work is a huge expenditure of time and energy.
    — Mark Samuel, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Labor unions said the cost was closer to $300 million, if the state required hospitals to cover much of the expenditure.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
  • But according to the authors of this latest paper, the 2020 study didn't measure the caloric expenditure of those silly gaits.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Dec. 2022
  • That means less income for the Russian state going forward, even as its expenditure surges due to the invasion of Ukraine.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2023
  • This was a $74 million expenditure for the Osage Nation, but its value to us is priceless.
    — TIME, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The intervening year was one of brutal 12-hour days, seven days a week, and the expenditure of tens of thousands of dollars (and the loss of much more in subscriber payments while the site was down).
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • The national debt topped $33 trillion this year, and fiscal watchdogs warn that within the next three decades, the cost of interest on the debt will be the nation’s largest expenditure.
    — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • When campaigns do report on payments, they are required to disclose the name and address of the recipient, as well as the date, purpose and amount of the expenditure.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Less than 20 percent of Medicare expenditures are on drugs.
    — Brian Blase, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • So, nothing to do with Meta’s eye-watering capital expenditure in the AI race, then.
    — Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.8% from a year ago in March.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 May 2024
  • And meanwhile, Chevron is pumping 27% more oil and gas than a decade ago despite cutting capital expenditure in half.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The incentive offers film and series projects produced in Hungary a 30% rebate based on their expenditure spent in the country.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Then, most of the money in the race had gone to independent expenditure groups, which this year have played second fiddle to the candidates’ direct spending.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • On the travel costs, McNulty says the district's expenditure was closer to half a million dollars than to the millions cited by Potter.
    — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Uber is the largest single source of independent expenditures; the ride-share company’s political action committee has reported spending more than $7 million, about 7% of all the outside money.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024

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