revenue expenditure

noun [U] (also revenue expense, abbreviation revex)

Definition

› ACCOUNTING, FINANCE money that a company spends on activities that are directly related to making sales in a particular period: Grants can be awarded for either capital or revenue expenditure.

→ Compare capital expenditure

(Definition of revenue expenditure noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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