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1
a payment made in the course of achieving a result
- you'll have to drastically cut back on your clothing expenditures if you hope to save anything
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2
the active use of energy in producing a result
- the expenditure of the nation's military might on wars that may or may not involve the national interest
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The first known use of expenditure was in 1769
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