expenditure

investment; covering [more]; dress, clothing, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things., array; tailoring, millinery; finery (ornament); full dress (show); garniture; theatrical properties., outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals [Am. Hist.]; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; masquerade., dishabille, morning dress, neglige, dressing gown, undress; kimono; lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds; slippers., robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat., cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof; ulster, P-coat, pea coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma, anorak., jacket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; stays, corsage, corset, corselet, bodice; stomacher; skirt, petticoat, farthingale, kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, apron, pinafore; bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta, songtag, tablier., trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small clothes; pants, shintiyan; shorts; tights, drawers; knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg., headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, taj, tam-o'-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver, castor, bonnet, tile, ideawake, billycock, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood; head, coiffure; crown (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; helmet; mask, domino., body clothes; linen; hickory shirt [U.S.]; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit; jersey; underclothing under waistcoat., neckerchief, neckcloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; girdle (circle); cummerbund, rumal, rabat., shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; high-low; Blucher boot, Wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; artics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums [U.S.], larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery., glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve., swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; pocket handerchief; ice wool; taffeta., clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, seamstress, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; crospin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer.

invest; cover; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumbest., vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck (ornament); perk, equip, harness, caparison., wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.

invested; habited; dighted; barbed, barded; clad, costume, shod, chausse; en grande tenue (show)., sartorial.

price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages (remuneration); value., dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage., bill (account); shot.

bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain; run up a bill (debt); have one's price; liquidate., amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in., fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.

priced; to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary, venal.

consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion; ebb; leakage (exudation); loss; wear and tear; waste; prodigality; misuse; wasting; rubbish (useless)., mountain in labor.

spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse., cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander., "waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a weel; labor in vain (useless); cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve., leak (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

wasted; at a low ebb., wasteful (prodigal); penny wise and pound foolish.

prodigality, prodigence; unthriftiness, waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering; malversation., prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel, squanderer, locust; high roller [U.S.].

be prodigal; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed (liberal) [more]., penny wise and pound foolish.

with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.