1. 消费，花费，耗费
2. 支出额
3. （时间、劳力、金钱等）支出，支付
4. 经费，费用，开支，开销
5. 消费额，消耗量
6. 财政支出

1. [U]花费,使用 action of spending or using
2. [U][C](尤指金钱的)支出额 amount (especially money) spent

1. money paid out; an amount spent

2. the act of spending money for goods or services

3. the act of consuming something

1.花费;开销;支出
expenditure is the spending of money on something, or the money that is spent on something.

e.g. Policies of tax reduction must lead to reduced publicexpenditure...
减税政策必然导致公共支出的削减。
e.g. They should cut theirexpenditure on defence...
他们应该缩减国防开支。

2.（时间、精力等的）消耗，花费
expenditure of something such as time or energy is the using of that thing for a particular purpose.

expenditure

e.g. The financial rewards justified theexpenditure of effort.
经济上的回报证明付出的努力是值得的。

1. 支出：同样无法理解强大的意甲罗马队建立的罗马王朝,一世而终. 为了解决这些问题,我们需要将所有的财务指标进行更细致的划分,而EA公司发布的TCM系列正是做到了这一点. 收入(Income)------------------支出(expenditure)

2. 消费：对反生产这个概念的理解离不开巴塔耶(Bataille)的消费(expenditure)概念. 巴塔耶认为,社会不是围绕需求以及符合需求的使用价值的生产来组织自身的,相反,社会组织总是建立在过剩消费之上的,并且生产活动是从这种消费中追寻它的意义和目的的.

1. The new equipment is not worth the expenditure.
   新设备不值这笔开支。
2. Renovations required an expenditure of about 1000 dollars.
   设备更新花了1000美元左右。
3. We limited our expenditure to what is necessary.
   我们把开销限制在必要的范围内。

• The collection and expenditure of the public revenue.

  出自：Adam Smith

• He disliked all quarrelling as an unpleasant expenditure of energy.

  出自：George Eliot

• ☆ 1769年进入英语，直接源自中古拉丁语的expenditus，意为支出，花费。