vast expenditure

collocation in English

meaningsofvastandexpenditure

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vast
adjective
uk
/vɑːst/us
/væst/
extremely ...
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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 ofvastandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Workmen were fully employed and agriculture flourished because there was thisvastexpenditure.
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Thevastexpenditureon capital is not in line with the hoped for increase in gas or its price.
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That means an increase of millions of pounds in what is already avastexpenditureupon arms.
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We are not getting value for thevastexpenditure, which amounts to something like half of the total national outgoings.
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It is a mistake to think that because expenditure, andvastexpenditure, is essential, therefore extravagance is impossible.
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He did not refer to thevastexpenditureof public moneys over the past decade on the computer industry.
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Surely that small sum cannot send a shudder of dismay through bureaucratic hearts hardened by years ofvastexpenditure.
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It was responsible for avastexpenditureand, in the end, very little was gained.
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There need be novastexpenditureof capital.
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In many areas the problem is not so much a question ofvastexpenditureas of education, tolerance and understanding.
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Cannot £3 million be found, in thisvastexpenditureof £4,000 million, from some source or another?
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If one takes such an industry as coal, has re-organisation, has thevastexpenditureon mechanisation as yet produced anything but pitifully inadequate results?
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It is, therefore, more than possible that thisvastexpenditure, if undertaken, might be largely ineffective by the time the work was completed.
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It would have taken many years and avastexpenditureof money to deal with each case as an isolated claim at law.
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Those recommendations do not involve any new machinery, or anyvastexpenditure.
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It has been said that this is a necessary economy in this time of stringency and ofvastexpenditureon armaments.
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I think it is agreed on all hands that thatvastexpenditureis absolutely essential for the efficiency of the industry.
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That is the reason why there is so little coming out, as a result of thisvastexpenditurein money and manpower.
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These are gigantic social problems which will call forvastexpenditureto resolve them.
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To put these 38 canals into proper order, would mean avastexpenditureof capital.
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