outgoings
outgoings — 名詞
1. The sums of money a household or business must pay out on a regular basis — for
支出；開銷
每期固定要付的費用，如租金、帳單
The sums of money a household or business must pay out on a regular basis — for example, rent, electricity bills, loan repayments, and food shopping.
After the rent went up, Felipe found his monthly outgoings exceeded his salary.
房租上漲後，Felipe 發現自己每月的開銷已超過薪水。
possessive + monthly outgoings — common collocation
The small bakery cut its outgoings by switching to a cheaper flour supplier.
那間小麵包店改用較便宜的麵粉供應商，藉此減少支出。
verb + outgoings: cut / reduce / lower
Yael keeps a spreadsheet listing every outgoing, from gym membership to the morning coffee.
Yael 用一張試算表記錄每一筆開銷，從健身房會費到早上的咖啡都不漏。
singular 'outgoing' used in itemised contexts
Before approving the loan, the bank asked Mert for a full breakdown of his household outgoings.
在核准貸款前，銀行要求 Mert 提供他家庭支出的完整明細。
household outgoings — frequent collocation in finance
Rising fuel prices pushed the company's outgoings well above last year's figures.
燃料價格上漲，使公司的開銷遠高於去年的數字。
- monthly outgoings
- household outgoings
- reduce outgoings
- cover one's outgoings
- outgoings exceed income
- expenses
more common worldwide; outgoings stresses the regular, recurring nature
- expenditure
more formal; often used for a single total figure rather than itemised costs
- overheads
business-only; the fixed running costs of an operation
文法句型
plural form only
monthly/weekly outgoings
用法筆記
Used almost exclusively in the plural in British English; the American equivalent is usually 'expenses' or 'expenditures'. Subject is typically a person, household, or business measured over a period (weekly, monthly, annual).
常見錯誤
2. Money already paid out as the cost of running something — viewed in a report or
支出總額
帳目上已付出的款項總和，與收入相對
Money already paid out as the cost of running something — viewed in a report or ledger as the opposite side from money received.
The annual report listed every payment under outgoings, from staff wages to office cleaning.
年度報告把每一筆付款都列在支出總額之下，從員工薪資到辦公室清潔費皆包含在內。
under outgoings — accounting / ledger usage
Christopher set the charity's outgoings against its donations to show a small surplus.
Christopher 把該慈善機構的支出總額與捐款相比較，呈現出小幅結餘。
set X against Y — finance pattern
The treasurer warned that outgoings had risen faster than membership fees for the third year running.
財務長警告，支出總額連續第三年的增加速度比會員費還快。
Hoa noticed that printing and postage made up nearly a quarter of the office's outgoings.
Hoa 注意到，印刷與郵寄費用佔了辦公室支出總額將近四分之一。
outgoings broken down by category
- total outgoings
- annual outgoings
- outgoings against income
- expenditures
preferred in American English accounting
- disbursements
highly formal; usually one-off payments out of a fund
文法句型
outgoings of [a business / a project]
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is the formal-ledger reading — total costs already incurred, typically itemised in an organisation's report. Sense 1 is the everyday personal-finance reading (rent, bills) framed as ongoing obligations.
常見錯誤
同根字
- outgoing形容詞B2
- outgo動詞C2
- income名詞A2
- expense名詞B1
- expenditure名詞C1