spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlay
(noun) the act of spending or disbursing money
expense, disbursal, disbursement
(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
disbursement (countable and uncountable, plural disbursements)
The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
Money paid out or spent.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*burse"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. déboursement.]
1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.
2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
