unnecessary expenditure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunnecessaryandexpenditure
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unnecessary
adjective
uk/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/us/ʌnˈnes.ə.ser.i/
not needed or wanted, or more than is needed ...
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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 ofunnecessaryandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is, therefore, important that action levels and remedial actions are clearly identified, in order to avoidunnecessaryexpenditureof time and money on inappropriate responses to microbiology results.
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Incomplete understanding of the subject may of course result inunnecessaryexpenditurefrom our coffers.
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We have succeeded in curbing and reining backunnecessaryexpenditureto a degree never undertaken by our predecessors.
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That brings me to this point: the urgent need now of shutting down allunnecessaryexpenditure.
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They will not be achieved, however, if he continues to take on extraunnecessaryexpendituresuch as shutting down the entirely legitimate sport of.
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His aim is not only to improve overall efficiency, but to cutunnecessaryexpenditure.
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Thirdly, there is a need for certainty to avoid furtherunnecessaryexpenditureon short-term relief measures.
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We would like to be assured that similarunnecessaryexpenditurewill not be incurred in the future.
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Expenditure should be carefully recorded, and we should see that there is nounnecessaryexpenditure.
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These officers could be used on more useful work, which would be one way in whichunnecessaryexpenditurecould be avoided?
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We shall saveunnecessaryexpenditureand concentrate help where it is needed.
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My own view is that we are not making sufficient attempt to reduceunnecessaryexpenditure.
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He has claimed that he wishes to expand exports and to reduceunnecessaryexpenditureat home.
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Unnecessaryexpenditureof money has to come from somewhere.
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I am all in favour of cutting downunnecessaryexpenditure.
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They also feel that reorganisation itself, because of the large-scale operations involved, may lead to an increase inunnecessaryexpenditure.
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I believe we ought to be getting our capital expenditure in the right places, partly by cutting allunnecessaryexpenditure.
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First, there was the ground of policy, and, secondly, the ground that it wasunnecessaryexpenditure.
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I think it is quite anunnecessaryexpenditurethat all these schemes should be published in a newspaper.
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There would be nounnecessaryexpenditureof public money on raids into local territory.
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