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Spending with a receipt and a conscience, unlike its reckless cousin, expense.
means The act of paying out money, or the total amount paid out, for something.
from From Latin expendere, 'to weigh out, pay out' — ex- ('out') plus pendere ('to weigh, to hang'), the same root that gave us pension, spend, and pendulum. Before coins were standardized, money was literally weighed out on scales, so paying was weighing — the metaphor just never left the language.
- vs expense
- expense is the bite, expenditure is the whole meal
- accounting flavor
- often capital, tracked over years not moments
- root
- latin expendere, to weigh out money carefully
- government love
- budgets obsess over it more than revenue