expenditure

Other forms of expenditure

plural

expenditures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about expenditure

What does expenditure mean?

expenditure means "money paid out; an amount spent". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expenditure?

expenditure has 4 syllables: ex-pen-di-ture. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛndətʃɚ/.

What is another word for expenditure?

Close synonyms include outgo, spending, outlay, expending, consumption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expenditure a common word?

expenditure is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.