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. 減稅政策必然導致公共開支減少。 返回 expenditure劍橋詞典C2 [ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 or 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ] the total amount of money that a government or person spends （政府或個人的）全部開支，花費 It's part of a drive to cut government expenditure. 這是削減政府開支的一個擧措。 The government's annual expenditure on arms has been reduced . 政府已經削減了年度軍費開支。 [ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ] the act of using or spending energy , time , or money （精力、時間或錢的）耗費，花費 The expenditure of effort on this project has been enormous . 已經在這項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