What's the difference between disbursement and expenditure?

Disbursement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of disbursing or paying out.
  • (n.) That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
  • (2) Everything has to move quickly because delaying the discussion and delaying the disbursement of the [next tranche] does not help the real economy.
  • (3) It also points to the huge benefits of small and rapid disbursements of funding: one doctor said that, had DfID provided him with the £7,500 he repeatedly asked for in June 2014 for eight isolation units, the money would have had the impact of “hundreds of thousands of pounds later on”.
  • (4) The OMP, due to run until 2014, has disbursed £3m to date.
  • (5) Less than half of the $5.1bn pledged to counter the epidemic has so far been disbursed.
  • (6) Only in this way could they assume active stewardship over the disbursement of their fortunes, applying the knowledge, expertise and temperament that gained them their piles toward the difficult task of giving them away.
  • (7) Hardly any development funding for implementation has been disbursed.” 68 million children likely to die by 2030 from preventable causes, report says Read more Dr David Richmond, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said the series offered a “wake-up call to governments worldwide to make faster progress in reducing the number of stillbirths, which wreak untold damage on families, care givers and communities”.
  • (8) Ciff has already disbursed $7.5m from its overall $20m commitment : $2m to support MSF’s work on the ground, $3m to the Red Cross, and $2.5m to support Unicef in Sierra Leone.
  • (9) The group, which does not speak Creole, relies on a young local fixer to select beneficiaries, disburse funds and keep records.
  • (10) There is often pressure to disburse aid rapidly and there are immense organisational challenges in suddenly expanding the scope and scale of programme delivery.
  • (11) Although this is not new money, the cash will now be disbursed with more urgency to kickstart infrastructure projects currently struggling for credit with the hope of galvanising private spending.
  • (12) Speaking after the meeting in Brussels, he said it was too early to make a decision on unlocking the next tranche of Greece’s €86bn (£73bn) bailout, but he hoped agreement on reforms would make a disbursal of funds possible.
  • (13) Mrs Ecclestone received disbursements from the trusts, in other words she also has a personal asset.
  • (14) The system of a government official inspecting toilets before disbursing money doesn’t work because toilet users do not feel ownership, he argues.
  • (15) Records suggest Inhofe’s 2014 campaign was a funding priority for the BP PAC, ranking as one of the top recipients of committee funds when compared with disbursements to other serving senators.
  • (16) The report adds: "Finance for adaptation is an obligation – it must be separate and additional to aid commitments, in the form of grants not loans, and disbursed through equitable governance mechanisms."
  • (17) Aides say the conservative leader will impress upon Barroso for rescue funds to be released as soon as possible saying “with the budget vote Greece has done its bit, now it is up to Europe to do the same.” The Greek finance minister Yiannis Stournaras, who is in Brussels, says despite disagreement between the EU and IMF over how to resolve Greece’s debt sustainability, disbursement of the long-delayed €31.5bn aid package is now a “done deal.” The technocrat said he believed the entire amount would be “deposited in an account at the Bank of Greece by the end of November or early December” once individual member state parliaments had voted on the package.
  • (18) The average payment of £700 plus disbursements has not increased since 2003, and less than half of those who apply are successful anyway."
  • (19) He recommends a punitive or even 100% tax, and a low or zero tax on their disbursement.
  • (20) Britain is yet to make a decision on whether to disburse the remaining £8m, which is due in December.

Expenditure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
  • (n.) That which is expended or paid out; expense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (2) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (3) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
  • (4) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
  • (5) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
  • (6) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
  • (7) We present a comparison of the Canadian and American data on expenditures, identifying the sectors in which the experience of the two nations diverges most, and describing the processes of control.
  • (8) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.
  • (9) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
  • (10) However, a variety of policy initiatives were introduced both to restructure National Health Service (NHS) expenditure, and to facilitate private provision of health services.
  • (11) Respiratory gas exchange and indirect calorimetry were used to obtain resting energy expenditure (REE) and net substrate oxidation rates.
  • (12) Hodge asked: "That's a lot of money, over £2bn [shortfall] being fed into the public expenditure figures – who is being held to account?"
  • (13) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
  • (14) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
  • (15) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
  • (16) Inhibition of facultative thermogenesis by beta-blockers such as propranolol, diminishes the daily energy expenditure and promotes weight gain and obesity.
  • (17) But there will be as much as George Osborne as Ed Balls or Miliband in today's budget delivered this afternoon in the Dail by two ministers: Fine Gael's Finance Minister Michael Noonon and Labour's Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin.
  • (18) If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labour.
  • (19) Simultaneously, energy expenditure and whole-body lipogenesis were measured by indirect calorimetry.
  • (20) Some £122bn was public expenditure and just under £28bn private spending, with NHS charges included in the private-spending total.