The phrase "cumulative spending" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the total amount of money spent over a period of time, rather than a single instance of spending. Example: The government announced that their cumulative spending on education over the past decade has reached $1 trillion.
In March, government departments faced a cumulative spending cut of £30bn by 2019-20.
By 2010, the cumulative spending on major hospital renovations will have jumped to over £11 billion.
And even if annual inflation adjustments were restored in 2017, the Pentagon would still lose $1.1 trillion in cumulative spending by 2020.
That made the six-year tumble in cumulative spending on DVDs and other forms of home entertainment look only about half as bad as it really was.
In the past three years, more than $7 billion in cumulative spending has been lopped from Virginia budgets, dealing severe blows to the state's colleges and universities; its ability to build and maintain roads and bridges; its support for localities and schools; and social services of every description.
- Chinese consumption is poised to surge from US$3.7 trillion in 2014 to US$6.4 trillion in 2025, resulting in US$56 trillion of cumulative spending over the next decade, according to a new report from The Demand Institute, a think tank jointly operated by The Conference Board and Nielsen.
This month they announced in their financial results for the year ended 30 June 2017 that the "cumulative spend" on the project had increased from £115.3m to £315.1m.
In his post, he compared his cumulative 2011 spending on a Comcast HD package (plus taxes and fees) to what he would have spent had he cut the cord and gone with only Netflix and Hulu Plus subscriptions.
The cumulative new spending across 10 years would be $67 billion.
Since cumulative construction spending was $300 billion above trend, it would have to run $300 billion below trend over a number of years in order to return to balance.
What's particularly scary is that it took 44 years before we even reached $1 trillion in cumulative health spending (in 1973).
