| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | price asked for something |
| Synonyms: | amount, bad news, bite, cost, damage, expenditure, expense, nick, outlay, payment, price, price tag, rate, squeeze, tab, tariff, tick |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
| Antonyms: | fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | cost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expense; price paid |
| Synonyms: | amount, arm and a leg, bad news, bite*, bottom dollar, bottom line, charge, damage*, disbursement, dues, expenditure, figure, line, nick, nut*, outlay, payment, price, price tag, rate, score*, setback*, squeeze*, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, top dollar, value, worth |
| Main Entry: | disbursement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment |
| Synonyms: | cost, disposal, expenditure, expense, outgoing, outlay, spending |
| Antonyms: | deposit, hoard, savings |
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | burnout, collapse, consumption, debilitation, debility, enervation, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | expense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cost, payment |
| Synonyms: | amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line, budget, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, obligation, out of pocket, outdo, outlay, output, overhead, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| Main Entry: | financing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money for operating expenses |
| Synonyms: | costs, expenditure, funding, loan, matching funds, outgo, outlay, payment |