current expenditure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcurrentandexpenditure
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current
adjective
uk/ˈkʌr.ənt/us/ˈkɝː.ənt/
of the ...
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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 ofcurrentandexpenditurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One was that over the cycle, public borrowing should only be for investment expenditure and not to pay forcurrentexpenditure.
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They try to escape circularity by avoidingcurrentexpenditureas far as possible because it is constrained by income.
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An examination of patterns ofcurrentexpenditureon services by local authorities adds an important new dimension to the sanitary equation.
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Another explanation for highcurrentexpenditureon streets was the level of capital investment in sewers and water supply.
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Annualcurrentexpenditureon baths and wash houses is only available for 17 out of the 43 years between 1870 and 1913.
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The unmistakable trend in both capital andcurrentexpendituredata is of growth.
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The cost of street construction, an activity with all the qualities of a capital investment, may appear undercurrentexpenditure.
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Such a budget standard could be calculated entirely from first principles without recourse tocurrentexpenditureconstrained by income.
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High levels ofcurrentexpenditureon streets reflect costs associated with the repair of streets following water and sewerage construction works.
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Currentexpenditureand annual loan charges were financed by ' rates ' which were taxes collected by local authorities based on assessment of the value of occupied property.
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To correct the misassignments between capital andcurrentexpenditureis to give greater emphasis to the pattern of growth in service provision identified in the capital data.
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Figure 5 confirms a pattern of highcurrentexpenditureon streets, reflecting a growing commitment to street maintenance, an important environmental dimension of which was street cleansing.
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Before 1985–86 transport supplementary grant was given for capital andcurrentexpenditure.
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After all, expenditure on food in this country to-day, is a lower percentage of totalcurrentexpenditurethan it was before the war—and not unnaturally.
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In addition, local authorities are still confronted with a steadily rising level ofcurrentexpenditure, and post-war programmes of expansion still lie ahead.
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Currentexpenditurefor this period is the subject of consultation with the local authorities and other interests concerned.
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That punishes people in public sector housing—the most vulnerable group—by making them pay a large part of the capital programme out ofcurrentexpenditure.
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It is worth remembering that the resources devoted to education are still enormous—over half local authoritycurrentexpenditure.
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It is much easier to do that than to get rid of staff or to cutcurrentexpenditure.
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There has been a general conviction that there should be more capital expenditure, however financed, and perhaps lowercurrentexpenditure.
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