government expenditure
Definition
Government spending. Along with consumer and business spending, government expenditures contribute to aggregate demand.
Use this term in a sentence
“ There was a lot of government expenditure going on and we all took note of it and thought that we could help in some way. ”
“ Although spending a trillion dollars on education may seem like an extravagence rather than a government expenditure, there are many schools in our country and all of them lack the funding they currently require. ”
“ In the presidential race of 2016, government expenditure will be a hot topic with more than 3.9 trillion dollars projected to be spent this year and a large portion of that being discretionary versus mandatory spending. ”
