the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent 花费；消费；费用；开支 a reduction in public/government/military expenditure 公共／政府／军费开支的削减 plans to increase expenditure on health 增加医疗保健开支的计划 The budget provided for a total expenditure of £27 billion. 预算案规定支出总额为 270 亿英镑。 Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure. 为了弥补日益扩大的收入和支出之间的差距，已经动用了储蓄。
Synonyms costscosts- spending
- expenditure
- expenses
- overheads
- outlay
- costs the total amount of money that needs to be spent by a business:
labour/production costs 人工／生产成本 rising costs 正在上涨的成本
- spending the amount of money that is spent, especially by a government or an organization:
public spending 公共开支 More spending on health was promised. 已承诺增加医疗开支。
- expenditure (rather formal
) an amount of money spent by a government, an organization or a person: 指政府、机构或个人的开支、支出、花费： expenditure on education 教育支出
- expenses money that has to be spent by a person or an organization; money that you spend while you are working that your employer will pay back to you later:
legal expenses 律师费 travel expenses 差旅费
- overhead(s) the regular costs of running a business or an organization, such as rent, electricity and wages:
High overheads mean small profit margins. 经费开销大意味着利润低。
- outlay the money that you have to spend in order to start a new business or project, or in order to save yourself money or time later:
The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay. 最好的设备花费大，但这种开支很值得。
- spending/expenditure/outlay on something
- high/low costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads
- total costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/outlay
- capital costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/outlay
- household costs/spending/expenditure/expenses
- government/public/education/health costs/spending/expenditure
- to increase/reduce costs/spending/expenditure/expenses/overheads/the outlay
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not. 资本金可以靠借款，而运营费用不行。 Expenditure was set at £16 million. 支出规定为1,600 万英镑。 Make sure you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure. 确保你的活期存款账户上有足够的钱支付开销。 Malls require huge expenditures on air conditioning. 购物中心在空调方面开销巨大。 The budget provided for expenditure of $2 billion. 预算中提供了20 亿元的支出。 The group is calling for higher expenditure on education. 该组织呼吁增加在教育方面的开支。 They incurred enormous expenditures for publicity during the launch years. 产品面市那几年，他们在广告上投入了巨资。 You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure. 对于巨额的开销，你也许希望寻求贷款。 plans to cut health expenditure 削减医疗保健支出的计划 the family's average expenditure on food 家庭用于食物的平均支出 Trouble arises when expenditure exceeds income. 当支出超过收入时，麻烦就出现了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- considerable
- great
- heavy
- …
- item
- amount
- level
- …
- make
- increase
- control
- …
- go up
- grow
- increase
- …
- cut
- limit
- level
- …
- expenditure for
- expenditure of
- expenditure on
- …
- a cut in expenditure
- a reduction in expenditure
- an increase in expenditure
- …
the use of energy, time, materials, etc. （精力、时间、材料等的）耗费，消耗 compare income
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from expend, suggested by obsolete expenditor ‘officer in charge of expenditure’, from medieval Latin, from expenditus, irregular past participle of Latin expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’.