expenditure
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The Fed’s favored inflation measure, the personal consumption expenditure price index, will be released on Thursday, but that covers February, and so won’t capture most of the oil price rise.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026
Rising tech capital expenditure is boosting AI server makers, with Dell’s fiscal 2028 AI server orders estimated at $68 billion.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
Large firms plan to increase capital expenditure by 3.3% in the current business year, the tankan showed, compared with the 10.9% rise planned the previous year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"Government expenditure on consumption is rising much more sharply than investment," economist Oliver Holtemoeller of the Halle Institute for Economic Research said.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
During the 1950s and 1960s, the time of Bobby’s initial and then most intense ascent, an expenditure of just $5 was considered burdensome by both mother and son.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing expenditure
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Economics
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