Word Meanings - EXPENDITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke. 2. That which is expended or paid out; expense. The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. A. Hamilton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPENDITURE)

• Consumption
• Decline
• decay
• expenditure
• waste
• decrement
• lessening
• decrease
• Cost
• Expenditure
• outlay
• disbursement
• payment
• compensation
• price
• worth
• expense
• charge
• outgoings
• Expense
• Price
• cost

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPENDITURE)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to EXPENDITURE)

• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• DISBURSEMENT
  1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• DECLINE
  décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.