EXPENDITURES

"EXPENDITURES" is a plural of: expenditure.

Date "EXPENDITURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references)

Specialty Definition: EXPENDITURES

Domain	Definition
Business	The total expenditure of a revenue nature, including depreciation and provisions attributable to a specified period. Source: European Union. (references)
Labor	Expenditures consist of the transaction costs, including excise and sales taxes, of goods and services acquired during the interview or recordkeeping period. Expenditure estimates include expenditures for gifts, but exclude purchases or portions of purchases directly assignable to business purposes. Also excluded are periodic credit or installment payments on goods or services already acquired. The full cost of each purchase is recorded even though full payment may not have been made at the date of purchase. Expenditure categories include: Food, alcoholic beverages, housing, apparel and services, transportation, health care, entertainment, personal care products and services, reading, education, tobacco products and smoking supplies, miscellaneous, cash contributions, and personal insurance and pensions). (Consumer Expenditures). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: EXPENDITURES

English words defined with "EXPENDITURES": balanced budget, budget, budget cut, budget deficit ♦ capitalise, capitalize, Comptroller General, curtailment ♦ director, disbursal, disbursement, downsizing ♦ expense ♦ manager, managing director ♦ retrenchment. (references)

Specialty definitions using "EXPENDITURES": ACCOUNTANT, BUDGET, adjusted basis, administrative analyst, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, administrative officer, AES, AIRPORT-MAINTENANCE CHIEF, annual capital expenditures survey, assets and expenditures survey, athletic coach, AUDITOR, TAX ♦ Budgets ♦ capital expenditures, capitalised, CENTRAL-OFFICE EQUIPMENT ENGINEER, CES, Complete income reporters, COST-AND-SALES-RECORD SUPERVISOR, COURT ADMINISTRATOR ♦ dining-service supervisor, director of social services, DIRECTOR, ATHLETIC, DIRECTOR, DENTAL SERVICES, DIRECTOR, EDUCATION, DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS, BROADCAST, DIRECTOR, SERVICE, DIRECTOR, SPEECH-AND-HEARING, DIRECTOR, SUMMER SESSIONS, DIRECTOR, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ♦ ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE, STUDIO OPERATIONS ♦ Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 ♦ GRANT COORDINATOR ♦ Health Care Costs, HOUSEKEEPER, HOME ♦ income-tax-return preparer, Indirect Flood Damage, INSTRUCTOR, SPORTS, Internal Rate of Return ♦ Laspeyres index, legislative advocate ♦ MANAGER, ANIMAL SHELTER, MANAGER, CEMETERY, MANAGER, COMPUTER OPERATIONS, manager, general, MANAGER, GOLF CLUB, MANAGER, GUN CLUB, MANAGER, HARBOR DEPARTMENT, MANAGER, HOTEL OR MOTEL, manager, household, MANAGER, INDUSTRIAL CAFETERIA, manager, motor hotel, manager, motor inn, manager, operating and occupancy, MANAGER, OPERATIONS, manager, range, manager, resident, MANAGER, SALES, manager, transportation, May Revision, motor vehicles supervisor ♦ negative cash flow, non-compulsory expenditures ♦ operations manager ♦ PERSONNEL RECRUITER, PORT ENGINEER, Precautionary Principle, Producer subsidy equivalent, production supervisor, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, CABLE TELEVISION, PROGRAM MANAGER, PROJECT ENGINEER, PROJECT MANAGER, ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, public mineral land, public spending on education ♦ range master, rate-and-cost analyst, Reference person ♦ shop superintendent, SORAR, superintendent, automotive, superintendent, cemetery, SUPERINTENDENT, MAINTENANCE, superintendent, maintenance, airports, superintendent, nonselling, superintendent, operating, SUPERINTENDENT, STATIONS, SUPERINTENDENT, TRANSPORTATION, SUPERVISOR, IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ♦ tax form preparer, TAX PREPARER, TECHNICAL TRAINING COORDINATOR, transportation department head, Treasury securities ♦ WELFARE DIRECTOR. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EXPENDITURES

Domain	Title
References	The 2000-2005 Outlook for Health Expenditures in The Middle East (reference) The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Health Expenditures (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Codebook for Health Maintenance Organization and Seattle Fee-For Service Annual Expenditures and Visit Counts (Aggregated Claims Series, Vol 5) (reference) State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies That Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Bri (reference) Capital Budgeting: Planning and Control of Capital Expenditures (reference) Capital expenditures in the steel industry, 1900 to 1953 (reference) Capital formation by expenditures on formal education, 1880 and 1890 (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	World Military Expenditures And Arms Transfers (reference) Capital Expenditures By Type Of Asset - Print On Demand Service (reference) Personal Consumption Expenditures (reference) Consumer Expenditures Study (reference) Plant & Equipment Expenditures Survey (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: EXPENDITURES

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. (reference)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: EXPENDITURES

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Accurate estimates of these expenditures are not available. (references)
		For example, 1992 total annual State expenditures on LTC per person aged 65 and older ranged from $2,720 in New York to $349 in Arizona. (references)
		Federal waiver requirements have held States to a tight substitution standard designed to prevent the overall growth in program expenditures. (references)
Business		Resources for financing healthcare expenditures in Kazakhstan are limited. (references)
		The ratio of health expenditures to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 8.4 percent. (references)
		Media expenditures constitute the bulk of the total advertisement industry in Germany. (references)
Children	Kiribati	Within its limited financial resources, the Government makes adequate expenditures for child welfare. (references)
	Burma	The junta has cut government expenditures on public health care even more sharply than it cut spending for education. (references)
	Namibia	During the year, 25 percent of government expenditures were designated for education and 15 percent for health care, a slight decrease from previous years. (references)
Economic History	Hong Kong	They are not used to finance expenditures. (references)
	Indonesia	The contractor is reimbursed for allowable expenditures. (references)
	Hong Kong	The HA's expenditures on drugs will continue to increase. (references)
Political Economy	CANADA	Military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies may see increased expenditures. (references)
	Eq. Guinea	However, the government budget still does not include all revenues and expenditures. (references)
	GERMANY	Germany employs a broad range of fiscal and market tools in financing public expenditures. (references)
Political Rights	Croatia	Outstanding concerns included the hurried last-minute drafting of the election law, provisions on minority representation that do not clearly spell out procedures for achieving minority balance in local bodies (and that still await data from the April 2001 census), the lack of a permanent state electoral commission, the lack of transparency in parties' campaign expenditures, and the lack of regulations for campaign financing. (references)
Trade	India	ECB's up to USD 5 million with a minimum simple maturity of 3 years can be used for meeting rupee expenditures. (references)
	Turkey	Financial leasing used to account for only 1 to 2 percent of capital expenditures in Turkey versus 20 percent in developed countries. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: EXPENDITURES

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	An estimate of the necessary appropriations, including the expenditures into which we have been driven by the insurrection, will be submitted to Congress.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will as usual be laid before you.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	A report from the commissioner of the public buildings in this city exhibits the expenditures upon them in the course of the current year.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Thus, though lavish in its expenditures upon the subject, Government has constantly defeated its own policy, and the Indians in general, receding farther and farther to the west, have retained their savage habits.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures is criminal.
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	We can reduce the abnormal expenditures, and we will.
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	Higher incomes should make it possible for State and local governments and for individuals to support higher and more nearly adequate expenditures for education.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	In fact, under the budget that I shall shortly submit, it can be done with an actual reduction in Federal expenditures and Federal employment.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Therefore, it is more important than ever that we take steps to control the growth of Federal expenditures.
George Bush	1989-1993	I have directed Cabinet departments and federal agencies to speed up pro-growth expenditures as quickly as possible.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: EXPENDITURES

"EXPENDITURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EXPENDITURES" is used about 237 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	237	19,467

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: EXPENDITURES

Expressions using "EXPENDITURES": annual capital expenditures survey ♦ assets and expenditures survey ♦ Capital Expenditures ♦ cash expenditures ♦ consumer expenditures survey ♦ government expenditures ♦ Health Expenditures ♦ military expenditures ♦ recurrent expenditures. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EXPENDITURES

Language		Translations for "EXPENDITURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		開�"� (expenses, pay). (various references)

Danish		omkostninger (charges, cost, costs, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses). (various references)

Dutch		lasten (charges, expenditure, expenses, liabilities, revenue charges, total cost and expenses). (various references)

Finnish		kulu (charges, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses). (various references)

French		débit (expenditure, expenses, total cost and expenses), charges (expenditure, expenses, total cost and expenses). (various references)

German		Aufwendungen (expenditure). (various references)

Greek		έξοδα (charge, expense, expenses, outgoings), οφειλή (debt, sum due). (various references)

Hungarian		kiadások (charges, costs, exes, expenses, outgoings, outlay). (various references)

Italian		uscite (outgo), spese (charge, cost, costs, expense, expenses, outgoings, shopping), oneri (charges), costi (charges, cost, costs, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		軍費 (war expenditures, war funds), 軍事費 (war expenditures, war funds), 総�"�出 (total expenditures), �"�出額 (expenditures or disbursements), 戦費 (war expenditures), 使�"不明金 (unaccounted-for expenditures), 国費 (national expenditures). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ししゅつがく (expenditures or disbursements), そうししゅつ (total expenditures), ぐ�"じひ (war expenditures, war funds), ぐ�"ぴ (war expenditures, war funds), しとふめいき�" (unaccounted-for expenditures), せ�"ぴ (one's late mother, past folly, past sin, war expenditures), �"くひ (national expenditures). (various references)

Pig Latin		expendituresay

Portuguese		encargos (charges, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses), responsabilidades (charges, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses), perdas (casualty, losings, losses), débitos (charges, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses), custos (charges, cost, costs, expenditure, expenses, revenue charges, total cost and expenses). (various references)

Russian		банк)расход;капиталовложение. (various references)

Spanish		encuesta sobre activos y gastos (assets and expenditures survey), encuesta de gastos de los consumidores (consumer expenditures survey), encuesta anual sobre gastos de capital (ACES, annual capital expenditures survey), gastos corrientes en instalaciones deportivas y recreativas destinadas a los asalariados (current expenditures devoted to sporting or recreational facilities intended for employees), desembolso (disbursement, expenditure, outlay), cargas de la explotación (farm expenditures expenses, overheads). (various references)

Swedish		omkostnader (charges), kostnader (charges, costs, outgo, outgoings). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: EXPENDITURES

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	impendium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: EXPENDITURES

Misspellings
	"EXPENDITURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: expediture, expeditures, expendature, expendatures, expendeture, expenditre, expeniture, expenitures. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EXPENDITURES"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "EXPENDITURES" (pronounced ikspe"ndukherz)
4	-u kh er z	caricatures, forfeitures, miniatures, signatures, temperatures.
3	-kh er z	adventures, architectures, benchers, bleachers, butchers, captures, catchers, conjectures, creatures, crunchers, cultures, debentures, dentures, departures, dispatchers, divestitures, features, fixtures, fractures, futures, gestures, indentures, infrastructures, junctures, launchers, lectures, legislatures, manufactures, marchers, misadventures, mixtures, natures, nurtures, pastures, pictures, pinchers, pitchers, poachers, postures, preachers, punctures, quenchers, ranchers, researchers, restructures, ruptures, schoolteachers, scriptures, sculptures, searchers, snatchers, stretchers, strictures, structures, subcultures, superstructures, sutures, switchers, teachers, textures, tinctures, tortures, ventures, vouchers, vultures, watchers.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: EXPENDITURES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-t-u-x"
	-1 letter: expenditure.
	-2 letters: expedients, expediters, predestine, preexisted.
	-3 letters: dextrines, disrepute, eternised, euxenites, expedient, expediter, expedites, expenders, expertise, extenders, inexperts, presented, president, preunited, preunites, reindexes, repetends, teredines, unexpired.
	-4 letters: dentures, deputies, detinues, dextrine, dextrins, disputer, duperies, esurient, eternise, euxenite, expedite, expender, expensed, experted, exserted, extender, externes, extrudes, indexers, inexpert, inserted, intersex, intrudes, neediest, nerdiest, nereides, neutered.
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