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(transitive) To expend; bestow; employ.
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(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of break even [(idiomatic) To neither gain nor lose money.]
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An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
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(economics) The condition that constrains expenditure to income (for a person) or the value of exports to imports (for a state)
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(business, finance) In a company or organization, the act of reducing expenditures in a budget.
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(now chiefly historical) A purse.
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(economics) A decrease in the value of a capital asset
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(transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
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(accounting) An excess of actual cost over budget.
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a reduction in costs, which can be achieved by buying at a lower price, or by cost-cutting measures.
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(idiomatic) To be a huge expense.
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(transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares.
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Money paid out or spent.
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The action of making such expenditures.
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(transitive, obsolete) to lay out (money etc.); to deal out; to expend
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Obsolete spelling of expense [A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.]
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(transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse
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(uncountable, countable) Act of expending or paying out.
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A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
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An arrangement whereby an employee is reimbursed for work-related expenses.
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(Britain, colloquial) To reduce the offer price of a property after agreeing to a higher one (normally just before contracts are exchanged)
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(economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
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(government) A budget appropriation.
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Monetary losses, as from gambling; losses.
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(financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
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Making financial losses.
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Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
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A business, or part thereof, that makes a loss; a loss-maker.
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(UK dialectal, Scotland) The indirect expenditure incurred for the purpose of increasing the productive power of organised labour.
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(law) The burden of proof, the onus; the duty of a party in a legal proceeding to prove an assertion of fact; it includes both the burden of production and the burden of persuasion.
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(business, accounting) The money an entity spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.
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(finance) Negative operating income.
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Alternative spelling of out of pocket [Of or pertaining to the spending of cash rather than using credit.]
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(countable, business, archaic except India) A cost, expenditure, or outlay.
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A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
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An outgoing payment; expenditure.
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(uncountable) The act of overdrawing a bank account.
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(uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
adj
(finance) In a stock or commodity market condition where there has been significant trading driving prices down to lower levels, levels which seem overextended or excessive on a short-term basis.
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(transitive, obsolete) To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
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(intransitive) To charge an exorbitant price for a service or product so that no one will purchase it.
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(idiomatic, business, management, accounting, euphemistic) financial loss.
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Alternative form of risk-off [(finance) A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift high-risk investments to low-risk investments.]
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Alternative form of risk-on [(finance) A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift low-risk investments to more profitable high-risk investments.]
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(finance) A mode of investment behavior in which investors shift low-risk investments to more profitable high-risk investments.
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(dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
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retained for future use rather than spent e.g. ː"A penny saved is a penny earned."
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Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
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A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
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(economics) The income available to households for spending.
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Alternative form of spending money [A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.]
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(banking, finance) A test of an organization's ability to meet its financial obligations in adverse financial circumstances.
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(finance) Trading a price below face value.
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(transitive, obsolete) To give that earned through supererogation to another.
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(US, finance) A unilateral spending cut made by a state governor in order to bridge a budget deficit gap.
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To set a price at less than the value of an item
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Having a relatively or abnormally low price
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(obsolete) Profit; return; proceeds.
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(finance, informal) A person who believes (often fervently) that Wave Systems Corp. will be a financial success.
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(finance) Of a budget or budgeting system: such that every expense needs to be approved every year, without the possibility of automatically accepting something because of its prior existence.
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(management) A budget developed disregarding the expenses or costs of the prior year, requiring explicit justification for all expenditures.
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