{
    "term": "expenditure",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a reduction in **public/government/military expenditure**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "plans to increase expenditure on health"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The budget provided for a total expenditure of £27 billion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Savings have been disposed of in order to meet the growing gap between income and expenditure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Expenditure was set at £16 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Make sure you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Malls require huge expenditures on air conditioning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The budget provided for expenditure of $2 billion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The group is calling for higher expenditure on education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They incurred enormous expenditures for publicity during the launch years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You may wish to take out a loan for a major item of expenditure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "plans to cut health expenditure"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the family's average expenditure on food"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Trouble arises when expenditure exceeds income."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "great", "heavy"],
                "… of expenditure": ["item", "amount", "level"],
                "verb + expenditure": ["make", "increase", "control"],
                "expenditure + verb": ["go up", "grow", "increase"],
                "expenditure + noun": ["cut", "limit", "level"],
                "preposition": ["expenditure for", "expenditure of", "expenditure on"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a cut in expenditure",
                    "a reduction in expenditure",
                    "an increase in expenditure"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the use of energy, time, materials, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the expenditure of emotion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)/",
                "audio": "ex/expenditure/expenditure__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪkˈspendɪtʃər/",
                "audio": "ex/expenditure/expenditure__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 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’."
}