huge expenditure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhugeandexpenditure
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huge
adjective
uk/hjuːdʒ/us/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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expenditure
noun
uk/ɪkˈspen.dɪ.tʃər/us/ɪkˈspen.də.tʃɚ/
the total amount of money that a government or ...
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(Definition ofhugeandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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People incurredhugeexpenditure, much above their means or status, and involved themselves in serious monetary difficulties.
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I do not endorse the pleas which are put forward from time to time for inflation and reflation andhugeexpenditureon public works.
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I wonder what will be the consequence of thehugeexpenditureon the acute hospital in the long term.
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We have never had such ahugeexpenditurein so-called peace time before.
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I want to ascertain the extent of thehugeexpenditureof which she is talking.
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We recognise the need forhugeexpenditureon defence, but our duty is to spend money to get rid of economic wrongs.
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One element is thehugeexpenditureof £3,000 million on education.
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Here are people going into ahugeexpenditureof money, and have not added up what the cost is to be.
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They speak as though we were demandinghugeexpenditureon schemes that do not matter.
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Around each of these districts the local authorities have embarked uponhugeexpenditurein order to provide what is proper housing for the working people.
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Hishugeexpenditureof time and energy all comes for free.
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If so, will there be sufficient growth in traffic to be able to service thathugeexpenditure?
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There ishugeexpenditureinvolved here and it grows relentlessly year by year.
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Between the 1960s and the 1980s, thehugeexpenditureon network infrastructure for large-scale centralised systems was provided by major public investments.
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Many sectors within its specification are defective and will needhugeexpenditureto put right.
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You are now proposing ahugeexpenditureupon education which ought to hava been spread over the last twelve years.
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The result is that you build up ahugeexpenditure.
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If we knew the number of bomber, fighter and transport squadrons, we could have some test of thishugeexpenditureof men and money.
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So there follows a time of disruption andhugeexpenditure.
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There is ahugeexpenditureand it is growing every year.
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