spend value

English translation: expenditure

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English term or phrase:	spend value
Selected answer:	expenditure
Entered by:	Lindsay Edwards

18:30 Oct 25, 2004

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English term or phrase: spend value

I am doing a Dutch-English translation on procurement for a multinational. I keep coming across the phrase 'spend value' and 'total spend value' (in English). I assume it means the amount of money that a company spends on raw materials/services, but I am sure there must be a better English term for this. Does anyone out there know what it is? Lindsay

Lindsay Edwards KudoZ activity Questions: 50 (3 open) (1 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 90 Belgium
Local time: 21:28

expenditure

Explanation:
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nlingua
Local time: 00:58

Grading comment

thanks - seems obvious really, wonder why I didn't think of it myself :-)
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3 +2

expenditure

nlingua

3 +1

expenditure value and total expenditure

Hacene

cost of raw materials

gulser (X)

cost

Cormac Bracken

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

expenditure

Explanation:
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nlingua
Local time: 00:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Urdu,

Hindi
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

thanks - seems obvious really, wonder why I didn't think of it myself :-)

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

expenditure value and total expenditure

Explanation:
that would be what you are looking for

Hacene
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:28
Native speaker of: French

10 mins confidence:

cost

Explanation:
The simplest meaning I can see in it is "cost".

Googling for "spend value" gets only 325 results, of which many aren't relavant; any standard business concept gets many thousands of hits. Those documents that do contain it aren't translator's works, they're from marketers with over-active Newspeak tendencies...

But it's possible that your client is such a company.

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Note added at 14 mins (2004-10-25 18:45:17 GMT)
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\"expenditure\" and \"cost\" are not exactly the same. Can we see the full sentence or more context?

Cormac Bracken
Thailand
Local time: 02:28
Native speaker of:

English

12 mins confidence:

cost of raw materials

Explanation:
cost of raw materials

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Note added at 15 mins (2004-10-25 18:45:57 GMT)
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\"cost of raw materials\" gets 24600 results.

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Note added at 25 mins (2004-10-25 18:55:30 GMT)
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\"expenditure of raw materials\" gets only 32 results

gulser (X)
Native speaker of:

Turkish

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