Roget's Thesaurus

#809. Expenditure

Nouns

expenditure, money going out; out goings, out lay; expenses, disbursement; prime cost etc. (price) 812; circulation; run upon a bank. payment etc. 807 [Money paid]; pay etc. (remuneration) 973; bribe etc. 973; fee, footing, garnish; subsidy; tribute; contingent, quota; donation etc. 784. pay in advance, earnest, handsel, deposit, installment. investment; purchase etc. 795.

Verbs

expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up [U.S.]; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out [Slang], fork out [Slang], fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money. run up debts, run up bills (debt) 806. fee etc. (reward) 973; pay one's way etc. (pay) 807; subscribe etc. (give) 784; subsidize.

Adjectives

expending, expended etc. v.; sumptuary.

Phrases

vectigalia nervos esse reipublicae [Lat.] [Cicero].