开销
kāi​xiāo HSK7

expenses

开销 (開銷) kāi​xiāo
expenses noun
to pay expenses or the cost of expenditures

这个月的开销比上个月多了一倍。

zhè gè yuè de kāi​xiāo bǐ shàng gè yuè duō le yī bèi.

This month's expenses are double those of last month.

dismiss noun
(archaic) to dismiss or fire an employee

那个店员因为手脚不干净被掌柜的开销了。

nà​gè diàn​yuán yīn​wèi shǒu​jiǎo bù gān​jìng bèi zhǎng​guì​de kāi​xiāo le.

The clerk was fired by the manager for being dishonest.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.28 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
3.55 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)