consumption expenditure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconsumptionandexpenditure
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consumption
noun[U]
uk/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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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 ofconsumptionandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theconsumptionexpenditureon manufactures of a typical urban household is more than twice that of a rural household.
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A key assumption is that a household'sconsumptionexpenditurecannot fall below a positive level each period.
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As with time-separable preferences, the intertemporal speculation effect increases - - with the import content ofconsumptionexpenditure, c (pd)/(pc c).
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His analysis suggested that one may wish to disaggregateconsumptionexpenditureinto (at least) three groups: motor vehicles, services, and the rest.
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The latter two series together always amount to less than 1% of totalconsumptionexpenditure.
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This arrangement of class boundaries is chosen to reduce errors from an interpolation procedure we followed while compiling statistics onconsumptionexpendituredistribution on a comparable basis.
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Suppose that governmentconsumptionexpenditureis allocated to goods or services that otherwise would be bought by private consumers directly.
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I thought that the two to select were alcohol and tobacco because they representconsumptionexpenditure, because they are not necessities.
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Three times more personalconsumptionexpenditurehas gone on private travel, while there has been a tremendous reduction in the total share of public transport.
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There was the publicconsumptionexpenditure, the capital development—public and private —and the private and personal consumption.
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The second way by which more capital can be made available is thatconsumptionexpenditureshould be made smaller.
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The crucial element is the forecast ofconsumptionexpenditure, for two reasons.
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The second line of defence isconsumptionexpenditure.
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Of course, that is a very quick way of pumping in a certain amount ofconsumptionexpenditure.
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Consumptionexpenditurehas more than doubled since 1970, with increases mostly in richer countries.
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First, there is privateconsumptionexpenditure, that is to say, expenditure on food, clothing, rent, and so on.
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It covers about £7,500 million worth ofconsumptionexpenditure.
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Investment expenditure takes rather longer to stimulate than doesconsumptionexpenditure.
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