expenditures

NOUN

payment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

amount consumption cost disbursement expense figure investment outlay output price rate spending value

STRONG

application charge dissipation kickback outgo payoff setback splurge throw tune use valuation waste

WEAK

bottom line cash on barrelhead come to squander

Antonyms

WEAK

savings

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expenditures

We’ve already seen Big Tech names like Meta and Google erase user data and impose limits on virtual storage as A.I. expenditures balloon and memory becomes more expensive.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Core personal-consumption expenditures — the Fed’s preferred inflation measure — is on target for 0.2% in July.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The analysts wrote in a note on Thursday that Applied Materials also faced gross-margin pressure in the near term because of its boost in capital expenditures, a factor that may have also spooked traders.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Federal Reserve, which aims to keep inflation at 2%, focuses on another inflation measure entirely: the personal-consumption expenditures price index, which is published by the Commerce Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Claudia appointed him treasurer; he would not only hold all the money, he would also keep track of it and pass judgment on all expenditures.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg