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开支

kāi zhī

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 開支 Measure word 笔、项

What 开支 means

1. expenditures; expenses
2. to spend money
3. colloquialto pay wages

The characters in 开支

• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…
• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect

Example sentences

• 这与减少开支无关。
  It's not about cost reduction.
• 我这个月要减少开支。
  Wǒ zhège yuè yào jiǎnshǎo kāizhī.
  I have to reduce my expenses this month.
• 政府的开支有些过头了。
  Zhèngfǔ de kāizhī yǒuxiē guòtóu le.
  The government's expenditures are a bit excessive.
• 计划的总开支为一亿円。
  Jìhuà de zǒng kāizhī wèi yī yì yuán.
  The total expense for the project amounts to one hundred million yen.
• 市府应补贴经常性开支庞大的产业中的小型企业。
  The city should subsidize small businesses in industries with large overhead costs.

Words containing 开支

• 公共开支gōng gòng kāi zhīpublic expenditure
• 军费开支jūn fèi kāi zhīmilitary spending
• 精简开支jīng jiǎn kāi zhīto reduce spending; to cut spending