expenditure

Preposition: of

• ammunition: Usually, destruction requires large expenditures of ammunition and is not considered economical, except for nuclear weapons.

Converse of object

• incur: The Wellcome Trust will not award grants to cover expenditure already incurred.
• authorize: We would be unlikely to grant an increase in authorized expenditure to do this.
• qualify: Claims can only be made in respect of the qualifying expenditure detailed above.
• justify: We thought hard about whether a new look justified the expenditure.
• authorize: The Poor Law Commissioners authorized the expenditure of £ 2,200 on its construction which to accommodate 120 inmates.
• approve: In 1838, the Poor Law Commissioners approved an expenditure of £ 2,649 on a workhouse for 100 inmates.

Adjective modifier

• total: Its total expenditure on research in 2005/06 is £ 1.25 billion.
• planned: Many of the reports for planned expenditure have been sent to Alastair.
• annual: Annual public expenditure by the Scottish Executive, for instance, works out at more than £ 500 per second per year!
• military: Parliamentary scrutiny of military expenditure created no greater degree of unanimity then than it does now.
• estimated: Over the year, you may find that you have over or under estimated expenditure in some sections.
• actual: The SSA for flood defense is based on the actual expenditure on the levy in the previous year.

Preposition: on

• R&D: The R&D tax credit allows companies to deduct up to 150 % of their expenditure on R&D when calculating their profit for tax purposes.

Noun used with modifier

• poor-rate: The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1834-6 had been £ 3,782.
• capital: Capital expenditure must not exceed 20 % of the overall grant awarded.
• R&D: A substantial, tho declining, share of this pyramiding R&D expenditure is borne by the U.S. military.
• revenue: We have reflected an increase in revenue expenditure of £ 15 million from 2003/04.
• calorie: It accounts for 60 to 70 percent of your daily calorie expenditure and it's closely linked to the amount of muscle you have.
• household: In 2001/2 food bills represented only a sixth of total household expenditure.