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.
  • Each expenditure was carefully recorded in his neat hand.
    — Andrew Diemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Every expenditure is critical to ensure short-term success.
    — Michael Praeger, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Berkeley also noted a per student expenditure rating that pushes tuition prices up and is not a proxy for an excellent legal education.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Some withdrew from the platform altogether, while others greatly reduced expenditures there.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • At least 30% of below-the-line expenditure is spent in Hong Kong.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Players can aim for a level of expenditure that keeps it fun and low-risk.
    — Fortune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index rose 2.8% from a year ago in March.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 1 May 2024
  • 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
  • Those legal fees caused the group to burn through money, accounting for two-thirds of the group’s expenditures from January through June, with payments doled out to over 40 different law firms.
    — Chuck Todd, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Under the restructuring, films and high-end TV projects will get a 34 percent expenditure credit.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The personal consumption expenditures price index — the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — showed a rise of 2.5% year over year in June.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 31 July 2024
  • Yes, low-carb diets can indeed increase energy expenditure, but by so little that the signal wouldn’t rise above the noise until at least 3 months.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • As for whether companies such as Exxon Mobil have better uses for their money, the proxy statement doesn’t make a great case for every expenditure.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
  • The personal-consumption expenditures price index, which is the Fed's preferred measure of inflation, rose 0.2% in July from the prior month, the same pace as June.
    — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ozer has admitted to defrauding Ravenwood Productions by creating false invoices and a forged letter purportedly from his accountant in an effort to make expenditures appear legitimate, according to the plea agreement.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 31 July 2024

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