In cash accounting, actual disbursements of cash or checks.

Money spent by state agencies from the appropriations approved by the Legislature.

The actual spending of money as distinguished from its appropriation. The administration makes expenditures; Congress votes appropriations. The two are rarely identical in any fiscal year, for expenditures may represent money appropriated in previous years.

The actual spending of money, as distinguished from the appropriation of it. Expenditures are made by the disbursing officers of the administration; appropriations are made only by Congress. The two are rarely identical in any fiscal year; expenditures may represent money appropriated one, two or more years previously.

Funds spent for the energy consumed in, or delivered to, a building during a given period of time. All expenditure statistics are presented on an annual basis for the survey calendar year. The total dollar amount includes State and local taxes, fuel adjustment charges, system charges, and demand charges. The total dollar amount excludes merchandise, repair charges, and service charges. Data on energy expenditures were not collected by end uses separately. For example, although it might be known that electricity was used in some buildings for heating, the expenditures for electricity reported for those buildings would typically include other uses of electricity as well (such as lighting and water heating). Total expenditures were reported as well as “Expenditures per Million Btu”—the aggregate ratio of a group of buildings' total expenditures for a given fuel to the total consumption of that fuel and “Expenditures per Square Foot”—the aggregate ratio of a group of buildings' total expenditures for a given fuel to the total floorspace in those buildings. (See Consumption.)

something of value spent, or consumed, most commonly a payment of cash.

Payments against appropriations that reduce the cash balance after legal requirements have been met. A fiscal year's expenditures are payments actually made in that fiscal year, regardless of the state fiscal year in which the appropriations were reserved or encumbered for such payments.

The money Nova Scotia must spend each year to pay for programs and interest on the debt.