EXPENDITURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expenditure mean? 

• EXPENDITURE (noun)
  The noun EXPENDITURE has 3 senses:

1. money paid out; an amount spent

2. the act of spending money for goods or services

3. the act of consuming something

  Familiarity information: EXPENDITURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPENDITURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Money paid out; an amount spent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending

Hypernyms ("expenditure" is a kind of...):

transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expenditure"):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

expense (money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer)

transfer payment (a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services)

Derivation:

expend (pay out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of spending money for goods or services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

expending; expenditure

Hypernyms ("expenditure" is a kind of...):

disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending (the act of spending or disbursing money)

Derivation:

expend (pay out)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of consuming something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

consumption; expenditure; using up

Hypernyms ("expenditure" is a kind of...):

depletion (the act of decreasing something markedly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expenditure"):

burnup (the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor))

Derivation:

expend (use up, consume fully)

 Context examples 

He also adds that we should do exercise in cold environments, as cold temperatures trigger thermogenesis, which in turn increases the calorie expenditure we can achieve.

(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)

“But the energy expenditure measures were way off the mark. The magnitude of just how bad they were surprised me.”

(Fitness Trackers Bad at Measuring Calories Burned, Study Says, VOA)

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) recommends spending more time standing to increase energy expenditure and combat the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

In mice, they demonstrate that exercise in the morning results in an increased metabolic response in skeletal muscle, while exercise later in the day increases energy expenditure for an extended period of time.

(Morning, Evening Exercise Provides Different Health Benefits, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A mathematic formula used to estimate individual oxygen consumption, and thus energy expenditure, at rest and for various physical activities.

(Metabolic Equivalent of Task, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes leptin receptor protein, plays a role in the regulation of adipose-tissue mass through hypothalamic effects on satiety and energy expenditure.

(LEPR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Exposure to DNA-damaging agents and subsequent energy expenditures by a cell to repair DNA damage.

(Genotoxic Stress, NCI Thesaurus)

Most of your spending seems directed to your home and family, so you will get much pleasure from your expenditures.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And it is this letter—this letter which may well mean the expenditure of a thousand millions and the lives of a hundred thousand men—which has become lost in this unaccountable fashion.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)