开支

This will not cover the outlay.

I spent 800 yuan this month.

pay by the month

We get our pay on the 12th of every month.

My family limit ourselves to a daily budget of 100 yuan .

government spending

overhead/occasional expenses

spending for education

household expenditure; domestic outgoings

national defence spending; outlay for national defence

non-productive expenditure

additional outlay

deficit spending

increase expenditure

trim off the expenditure; cut down on expenditure; cut/curb/curtail expenditure; cut/keep/pare/trim down expenses; retrench in expenditure

limit/restrict expenditure; put a lid on expenditure

save (on) expenditures; reduce expenses

plan the spending

a heavy/modest outlay

an item of expenditure

an amount/a sum of expenses