| Main Entry: | expenditure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment |
Synonyms: |
amount, application, bottom line, cash on barrelhead, charge, come to, consumption, cost, disbursement, dissipation, expense, figure, investment, kickback, outgo, outlay, output, payoff, price, rate, setback*, spending, splurge, squander, throw*, tune*, use, valuation, value, waste |
| Notes: | expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures |
Antonyms: |
savings |
| Main Entry: | financing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for operating expenses |
Synonyms: |
costs, expenditure, funding, loan, matching funds, outgo, outlay, payment |
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surpass, beat |
Synonyms: |
exceed, excel, go beyond, go by, leave behind, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outrace, outshine, outstrip, shoot ahead of, surmount, top, transcend |
Antonyms: |
fall behind, lose |
| Main Entry: | surpass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | outdo something or someone |
Synonyms: |
beat, best, better, cap, eclipse, exceed, excel, go beyond, go one better, improve upon, outdistance, outgo, outmatch, outpace, outperform, outrank, outrival, outrun, outshine, outstep, outstrip, outweigh, override, overshadow, overstep, pass, put to shame, rank*, surmount, top, tower, tower above, transcend, trump* |
Antonyms: |
fail, fall behind, lose |
| Main Entry: | outmatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surpass |
Synonyms: |
beat*, best, better, cap, eclipse, exceed, excel, go beyond, go one better, improve upon, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outpace, outperform, outrank, outrival, outrun, outshine, outstep, outstrip, outweigh, override, overshadow, overstep, pass, put to shame, rank*, surmount, top, tower, tower above, transcend, trump* |
| Concept: | Expenditure. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
expenditure, money going out; out goings, out lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost (price); circulation; run upon a bank., [Money paid] payment [more]; pay (remuneration); bribe; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation., pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment., investment; purchase.
-verbs
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, fork out; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money., fee (reward); pay one's way (pay) [more]; subscribe (give); subsidize.
-adjectives
expending, expended; sumptuary.
-phrases
vectigalia nervos esse reipublicoe [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
receipt |
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