how to pronounce expenditure

/ɪkˈspɛn.dɪ.tʃəɹ/

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expenditure is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of expenditure in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the energy expenditure of trying to swim …”

meaning of expenditure

Expenditure is the act of spending money or other resources.

expenditure frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word expenditure occurs in english on average 55.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics expenditure can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that expenditure can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;