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
  • Not to mention the city budget, worth more than the budgets of many states, so paint shouldn’t be an over-the-top expenditure.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
  • And it's been the lowest capital expenditure in the last two years, so that didn't drive it.
    — CBS News, 31 July 2022
  • That's a lot of expenditure on top of Brenner's salary.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 6 June 2023
  • The body tries to cool itself down, which leads to an increase in calorie expenditure.
    — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • In this case, the sum of $900 million of the construction costs was a federal grant, and some would say that this should not count as an expenditure.
    — Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Behind the scenes there is a fight brewing over the wording of a law for a 100-billion euro expenditure.
    — Markus Ziener, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The largest single expenditure of the Covid wealth is going to one place – punishment.
    — David Sher, al, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Similar to the above, a lot of this comes down to calorie intake vs. expenditure.
    — Lauren Bedosky, SELF, 18 Jan. 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
  • The expenditure can be added to future budgets as part of the annual meeting cost.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 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 United States continues to lead the world in military expenditures.
    — Daniel Cody, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Whether in good times or bad times, this is an exercise that will always find unnecessary expenditures.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025

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