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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search
| August 26, 2009 |
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| Word of the Week--"Expenditure" |
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Definition--Expenditure- n. something that is expended, used, or given away; often used in reference to time, money, and energy.
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| Discussion- My wife is a first-year teacher this year, and one thing that she is finding
out is that being a beginning teacher requires many expenditures of money, time, and energy. There are many supplies that a first year teacher must purchase to get the classroom together, and most schools do not provide a very generous stipend for these supplies. As a result, teachers are forced to pay for these supplies out of their own pocket, and teachers are not paid all that much to begin with! I am also amazed at the expediture of time required for a first-year teacher. A first-year teacher has no previous lesson plans to use and has not yet developed time-saving methods that veteran teachers acquire over the years. As a result, first-year teachers often expend 60-70 hours a week in planning, implementing, and grading. Putting this much time into anything will drain one's energy, and this is perhaps the most costly
expenditure for beginning teachers. I have expended exhaustive amounts of energy just thinking about it!
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| Etymology--Expenditure- from Medieval Latin expenditus, formed from venditus, past participle of vendere, meaning to sell. |
Foreign Translations |
| Dutch: | uitgave(n) (de) |
| French: | dépense (f) |
| German: | Ausgabe (f) |
| Italian: | spesa |
| Spanish: | gasto, desembolso |
