expenditure
noun /ɪkˈspendɪtʃə(r)/
/ɪkˈspendɪtʃər/
[uncountable, countable]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
- labour/production costs
- 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。
- public spending
- 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
- expenditure on education
- 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
- legal expenses
- 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。
- High overheads mean small profit margins.
- 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。
- The best equipment is costly but is well worth the outlay.
- 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
Topics Businessc1- Capital 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。
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
- …
- a reduction in public/government/military expenditure
- the use of energy, time, materials, etc.
(精力、时间、材料等的)耗费,消耗 - the expenditure of emotion
感情耗费 - This study represents a major expenditure of time and effort.
这项研究意味着要耗费大量的时间和精力。
compare income - the expenditure of emotion
词源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’.