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# expenditure — English to French

How English *expenditure* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [expenditure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/expenditure/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: expenditure (96 382), expenditures (40 489). By style: everyday 2 · literary 2 · parliamentary 5 149 · legal and administrative 27 315 · UN documents 104 403.

## dépenses

Used about 118 204 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 505 · legal and administrative ≈ 25 608 · UN documents ≈ 88 090).

- They will need to reduce their **expenditures**.
  Ils devront réduire leurs **dépenses**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zurich899 and Paiooooo · checked, community translation · [\#5007424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5007424) [\#685388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/685388))

- I shall begin with agricultural **expenditure**.
  Je commencerai par les **dépenses** agricoles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1748295)

- Eligible **expenditure** (present value)
  **Dépenses** éligibles (valeur actuelle)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2149214)

- **Expenditures** by recipient country
  Les **dépenses** par pays bénéficiaire
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16497626)

- Finally, he is proposing somewhat unrealistic **expenditures**.
  Enfin, il nous propose des **dépenses** un peu irréalistes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1786508)

## montant

Used about 3 263 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 263).

- Investing Financing Total actual budget **expenditure** on comparable basis as presented in statement V
  **Montant** effectif total (calculé selon une base comparable) présenté dans l &apos; état V
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 28946983)

- 20.37 The amount of $2,939,600 is required for an increased number of posts and for related non-post **expenditures**.
  20.37 Le **montant** de 2 939 600 dollars doit permettre de financer un nombre accru de postes ainsi que d &apos; autres rubriques connexes.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7712111)

- The marginal over **expenditure** will be offset against cumulative appropriations under the Enterprise Resource Planning System.
  Il y a donc eu un léger dépassement de crédit, dont le **montant** sera déduit du total des crédits ouverts au titre du progiciel de gestion intégré.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14748011)

## recettes

Used about 55 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 54).

- We should strike a balance between our **expenditure** and income.
  Nous devrions trouver un équilibre entre nos dépenses et nos **recettes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by auxitt and Wakano · checked, community translation · [\#22917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22917) [\#1861390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1861390))

- The report follows the format used for the past three years, with chapters covering revenue and each of the **expenditure** areas under the headings of the financial perspectives.
  Le rapport respecte le format utilisé ces trois dernières années, qui contient des chapitres couvrant les **recettes** et chacun des domaines de dépense sous les rubriques des perspectives financières.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 255009)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Our **expenditure** increases every year.
  Notre dépense augmente tous les ans.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7371)

- The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his **expenditure** in ten years, from 1823 to 1833.
  La différence entre cette somme et les six cent trente mille francs retirés de chez Laffitte représentait la dépense de dix années, de 1823 à 1833.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29173)

- Total annual **expenditure** on the public procurement of goods and services in the European Union amounts to EUR 1 500 billion, or more than 16% of EU gross domestic product.
  Au sein de l'Union européenne, 1 500 milliards d'euros sont investis dans les marchés publics de biens et de services, soit plus de 16 % de son produit intérieur brut.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387949)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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