expenditure
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With top tech companies shifting their cash flow toward heavily artificial-intelligence-fueled capital expenditure, the buybacks that have supported the market for so long will diminish.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
Despite persistent tensions in the Middle East, expenditure in the region rose only marginally, by 0.1 percent, to $218 billion.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
The new charge sheets include allegations that Hanna tricked one man into paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenditure on her behalf, telling him she would repay him and make him her stepson.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
He also says that lower capital expenditure outlook is positive for cash generation, which came as a surprise, and the new lower level is one that should be sustainable even if macro trends improve.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
In separate statements, the Retrenchment Committee urged the directors to make the committee permanent and invest it with the power to approve or deny every expenditure at the exposition, no matter how small.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing expenditure
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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