![]() household expenditure (=the amount of money the people in a house spend on food, heating etc ) Sally cut her household expenditure and tried to save every penny she could. health/welfare/education expenditure (=money that a government spends on providing health services, welfare, or education ) There has been a steady rise in welfare expenditure. military/defence expenditure (=money that a government spends on the armed forces ) Military expenditure has been growing year on year. national/local expenditure (=money spent by national or local government ) There have been cuts in local expenditure on education. ○○ noun 1 PE SPEND MONEY the total amount of money that a government, organization, or person spends during a particular period of time → income expenditure on expenditure on research and development huge cuts in public expenditure (=the amount of money a government spends on services for the public ) government expenditure on education capital expenditure (=spending by a company on buildings, machinery, equipment etc ) expenditure of an expenditure of £1 million 2 SPEND MONEY SPEND TIME the action of spending or using time, money, energy etc the expenditure of time and money on your house or garden COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + expenditure public/government/state expenditure (=money a government spends on the services it provides for people ) The Conservatives want to maintain a firm control on public expenditure.Expensively ≠ inexpensively From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Economics expenditure ex‧pen‧di‧ture / ɪkˈspendɪtʃə $ -ər /
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