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HSK 1
cost / expenditure / expense / CL: 筆|笔, 個|个
HSK 3
to go out and come in / entrance and exit / expenditure and income / discrepancy / inconsistent
HSK 6
funds / expenditure / CL: 筆|笔
HSK 5
expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
HSK 6
military expenditure
cash flow / financial balance / income and expenditure
HSK 7-9
income does not cover expenditure / unable to make ends meet
low level of spending; small expenditure
to spend; to pay out / expenses; expenditure
HSK 5
expenditures; expenses (CL:筆|笔,項|项) / to spend money / (coll.) to pay wages
HSK 7-9
to save on expenditure
public expenditure
collection of maps / atlas
on-the-ground promotion (abbr. for 地面推廣|地面推广)
items of expenditure / expenditures
heart's blood / expenditure (for some project) / meticulous care
HSK 7-9
recursion / recursive (calculation) / recurrence
to spend / expenditure / to cost
thematic map
personnel expenditure (accountancy)
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
to break even / balance between income and expenditure
atlas
vast / voluminous / many and varied / numerous / extensive amount of / exhaustive / heavy (expenditure) / arduous / strenuous / exhausting / draining / burdensome
(banking) to overdraw / to take out an overdraft / an overdraft / to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue) / (old) to draw one's wage in advance / (fig.) to exhaust (one's enthusiasm, energy etc) / to damage a natural resource through overuse
HSK 7-9
mind map
(math.) recurrence relation
mind map
"three public expenditures" of the PRC government, i.e. air travel, food and entertainment, and public vehicles
to tailor (clothes) / to trim (expenditure)
Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called toddy cat
annual expenditure
nonrecursive
recurrence formula


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