🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Spesa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: speh-zah

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Expenditure/ɪkˈspɛndɪtʃər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #800 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La spesa per la salute è aumentata."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action of spending funds or resources.

    "The government's expenditure on healthcare has increased significantly this year."
  2. 2

    An amount of money spent.

    "Her monthly expenditure on groceries is quite high."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'expenditure' originates from the Latin 'expendere', meaning 'to weigh out, spend', which evolved through Old French 'expendit' before entering Middle English. The term has shifted from a focus on weighing out resources to a broader meaning of spending or disbursing funds.

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