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Expenditure vs Expensive - What's the difference?

expenditure | expensive |

As a noun expenditure

is (uncountable|countable) act of expending or paying out.

As an adjective expensive is

having a high price or cost.

expenditure

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable, countable) Act of expending or paying out.
  • (uncountable, countable) Amount expended; expense; outlay.
    • The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.

    Synonyms

    * (act of expending) * (amount expended) disbursement, expense, payment, cost, charge, outlay

    expensive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * expencive (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a high price or cost.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
  • (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

    • Synonyms

    * dear * costly * pricey

    Antonyms

    * cheap * inexpensive * low-priced

    Derived terms

    * expensively * expensive drunk