expenditure

Roget category 809

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.4. Monetary relations

#809. Expenditure

noun

expenditure, money going out — out goings, out lay — expenses, disbursement — prime cost etc. (price) 812 — circulation — run upon a bank.
payment etc. 807 [Money paid]; pay etc. (remuneration) 973 — bribe etc. 973 — fee, footing, garnish — subsidy — tribute — contingent, quota — donation etc. 784.
pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment.
investment — purchase etc. 795.

verb

expend, spend — run through, get through — pay, disburse — ante, ante up — pony up [U.S.] — open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings — lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang], fork over — bleed — make up a sum, invest, sink money.
run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806.
fee etc. (reward) 973 — pay one's way etc. (pay) 807 — subscribe etc. (give) 784 — subsidize.

adjective

expending, expended etc. v. — sumptuary.

phrase

vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae [Lat.] [Cicero].

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