increasing expenditure

collocation in English

meaningsofincreaseandexpenditure

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increase
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.kriːs/us
/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or 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 ofincreaseandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even when public spending in almost every other area had to be cut back, there was rapidlyincreasingexpenditureon new help for disabled people.
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I would like to note in this connection thatincreasingexpenditureis no solution.
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There has been a steadilyincreasingexpenditureupon education and a steadily increasing proportion of our national product devoted to that end.
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This story ofincreasingexpenditurealso applies to health and welfare.
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Rate poundages are bound to fall and, as for education, the whole country desires anincreasingexpenditureon education.
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It was inevitable in those circumstances that until something was done the continuallyincreasingexpenditure and the stationary income would produce a vastly developing gap.
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This country is faced with a rapidlyincreasingexpenditureon national defence which will need a great deal of financing.
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Are not the figures rather disappointing when as a party we are committed toincreasingexpenditureto assist development areas?
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They are removing subsidies to tenants who are the worst off andincreasingexpenditureon help for house buyers who are better off.
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The policy ofincreasingexpenditurein many spheres cannot be reconciled with the need to economise.
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I do not understand why we should startincreasingexpenditureagain in 1995–96.
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So, all in all, we are notincreasingexpenditurethrough enlightenment of this problem.
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I should have thought that there was scope forincreasingexpenditureco employment services.
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I wonder whether we are not confusingincreasingexpenditurewith increasing service.
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We have sought to take that philosophy further byincreasingexpenditureand devising new ways of switching resources to meet the needs of the individual.
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