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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | numeral; numeric value |
| Synonyms: | amount, character, chiffer, cipher, cost, digit, integer, number, price, quotation, rate, sum, symbol, terms, total, worth |
| Antonyms: | letter |
| Main Entry: | pace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speed, tempo of motion |
| Synonyms: | beat, bounce, celerity, clip, downbeat, lick*, momentum, motion, movement, progress, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rate, swiftness, time, velocity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | percentage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | portion, allotment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bite, bonus, chunk, commission, corner*, cut, discount, division, duty, fee, holdout, interest, juice*, payoff, percent, piece, piece of the action, points, proportion, quota, rate, ratio, section, slice*, split*, taste*, winnings |
| Antonyms: | whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pitch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tone of sound |
| Synonyms: | frequency, harmonic, modulation, rate, sound, timbre |
| Notes: | to put up a tent is to pitch it; to take down a tent is to strike it pitch is movement up and down and yaw is movement side to side on a ship, airplane, or other conveyance |
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial value |
| Synonyms: | amount, appraisal, appraisement, asking price, assessment, barter, bill, bounty, ceiling, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, damage, demand, disbursement, discount, dues, estimate, exaction, expenditure, expense, face value, fare, fee, figure, hire, outlay, output, pay, payment, premium, prize, quotation, ransom, rate, reckoning, retail, return, reward, score, sticker, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, tune*, valuation, wages, wholesale, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advancement, gain |
| Synonyms: | advance, amelioration, anabasis, betterment, boost, break, breakthrough, buildup, course, dash, development, evolution, evolvement, expedition, flowering, growth, headway, hike, impetus, improvement, increase, journey, lunge, march, momentum, motion, movement, ongoing, pace, passage, process, procession, proficiency, progression, promotion, rate, rise, step forward, stride, tour, unfolding, voyage, way |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, deterioration, retreat, retrogression |
| Main Entry: | proportion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relative amount, size of part to whole |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, amplitude, apportionment, breadth, bulk, capacity, cut, degree, dimension, distribution, division, equation, expanse, extent, fraction, magnitude, measure, measurement, part, percentage, portion, quota, rate, ratio, relationship, scale, scope, segment, share, volume |
| Main Entry: | quotation/quote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial estimate |
| Synonyms: | bid, bid price, charge, cost, current price, figure, market price, price, price named, published price, quote, rate, stated price, tender |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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