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as in expenses
a payment made in the course of achieving a result
you'll have to drastically cut back on your clothing expenditures if you hope to save anything
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as in efforts
the active use of energy in producing a result
the expenditure of the nation's military might on wars that may or may not involve the national interest
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Recent Examples of expenditures
The failure to reduce expenditures could spell doom for an increasing number of colleges.
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Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Among her other expenditures was $1 million to Harpo Productions, the company Oprah owns in October.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
What is left are popular expenditures on things like education, Meals on Wheels, national parks, and much more.
—Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Economists can then weigh the various components of CPI and PPI to estimate how the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures index, will shake out.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Even as expenditures continue to soar, millions of Americans delay or forgo care due to unaffordable costs.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The global healthcare sector’s IT expenditures alone are expected to grow from $276 billion to $785 billion by 2031, making the sector a pie most would want their slice of.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Those are just some of the frivolous expenses that actor Al Pacino details in his new memoir, Sonny Boy, expenditures that eventually whittled his fortune down from $50 million to nothing.
—Sharon Olson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The company attributes this decline to operating losses and capital expenditures.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Among her other expenditures was $1 million to Harpo Productions, the company Oprah owns in October.
—Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
What is left are popular expenditures on things like education, Meals on Wheels, national parks, and much more.
—Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Economists can then weigh the various components of CPI and PPI to estimate how the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal consumption expenditures index, will shake out.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
Even as expenditures continue to soar, millions of Americans delay or forgo care due to unaffordable costs.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
The global healthcare sector’s IT expenditures alone are expected to grow from $276 billion to $785 billion by 2031, making the sector a pie most would want their slice of.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Those are just some of the frivolous expenses that actor Al Pacino details in his new memoir, Sonny Boy, expenditures that eventually whittled his fortune down from $50 million to nothing.
—Sharon Olson, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The company attributes this decline to operating losses and capital expenditures.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Expenditures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expenditures. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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