How to say "expenses" in Japanese

• 経費けいひJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounExpenses incurred in running a business or other undertaking; the natural word for business or office expenses, covering outgoings that can be charged to the business.
  私わたしたちは、経費けいひを切きりつめなければならない。↗

  We must cut down our expenses.
• 出費しゅっぴJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbMoney paid out, typically one's own or a household's outlays; often used where the spending feels burdensome or keeps piling up, rather than as a neutral accounting term.
  金かねをためるには出費しゅっぴを切きりつめないと。↗

  We must cut our expenses to save money.
• 支出ししゅつJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe general term for money spent or disbursed; the neutral counterpart of income, applied to household, corporate and government expenditure in budgets, accounts and statistics.
  彼女かのじょは支出ししゅつを徐々じょじょに削減さくげんした。↗

  She pared down her expenditures.
• 掛かりかかりCommon
  nounThe costs something incurs or requires, such as the cost of keeping something running; narrower than the others, and seldom the word you want for 'expenses' in general.

Choose 支出 for expenditure in general, the counterpart of income; 経費 for business or operating expenses; 出費 for money paid out, often personally; and 「掛かり」 for the costs a particular undertaking incurs.

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• 経費けいひexpenses
• 出費しゅっぴexpenses
• 支出ししゅつexpenditure
• 入り目いりめexpenses
• 物入りものいりexpenses
• 失費しっぴexpenses
• 入費にゅうひexpenses
• 要りいりexpenses
• 諸掛かりしょがかりexpenses
• 掛かりかかりexpenses
• 入用にゅうようexpenses
• 用度ようどexpenses
• 入り用いりようcosts
• 入りいりexpenses