柯林斯詞典expenditure /?k?sp?nd?t??/ (expenditures) 1. N-VAR Expenditure is the spending of money on something, or the money that is spent on something. 花銷; 支出[正式] Policies of tax reduction must lead to reduced public expenditure. 減稅政策必然導(dǎo)致公共開支減少。 返回 expenditure劍橋詞典C2 [ 可數(shù)名詞：有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 or 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] the total amount of money that a government or person spends （政府或個(gè)人的）全部開支，花費(fèi) It's part of a drive to cut government expenditure. 這是削減政府開支的一個(gè)舉措。 The government's annual expenditure on arms has been reduced . 政府已經(jīng)削減了年度軍費(fèi)開支。 [ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] the act of using or spending energy , time , or money （精力、時(shí)間或錢的）耗費(fèi)，花費(fèi) The expenditure of effort on this project has been enormous . 已經(jīng)在這項(xiàng)工程上付出了巨大的努力。 例句 We're primarily concerned with keeping expenditure down.I propose that we wait until the budget has been announced before committing ourselves to any expenditure. 返回 expenditure