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expense
[ ik-spens ]
noun
- cost or charge:
the expense of a good meal.
Synonyms: expenditure, outlay
- a cause or occasion of spending:
A car can be a great expense.
- the act of expending; expenditure.
- expenses,
- charges incurred during a business assignment or trip.
- money paid as reimbursement for such charges:
to receive a salary and expenses.
verb (used with object)
- to charge or write off as an expense.
verb (used without object)
- to be expensed.
expense
/ ɪkˈspɛns /
noun
- a particular payment of money; expenditure
- money needed for individual purchases; cost; charge
- plural incidental money spent in the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
- something requiring money for its purchase or upkeep
the car was more of an expense than he had expected
- at the expense ofto the detriment of
he succeeded at the expense of his health
verb
- tr to treat as an expense for book-keeping or tax purposes
Other Words From
- ex·penseless adjective
- preex·pense noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of expense1
Idioms and Phrases
- at the expense of, at the sacrifice of; to the detriment of:
quantity at the expense of quality.
More idioms and phrases containing expense
see at the expense of ; go to the trouble (expense) ; money (expense) is no object .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The banks cited a need to reduce expenses to offset the cost of credit souring during the pandemic as well as spending to comply with stricter regulation and invest in digital technology.
If Oracle’s interest in TikTok is primarily about cloud computing, the deal could come at the expense of Google, which is Oracle’s longtime nemesis and which currently provides cloud services to TikTok.
It will make markets and the capitalist system function better by rewarding positive contributions to well-being and prosperity, not wealth transfers at the expense of others.
Still, Walter Hyde hasn’t been able to raise his staff’s pay to $10 an hour this year like he planned, with all the extra expenses of masks and gloves.
Citron Reseach thanked Hinddenburg in a tweet, offering to pay for half of any legal expenses incurred.
Stripped of these frills, the only real expense of a prison wedding is the officiant.
Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.”
They even posted mundane administrative materials, including expense accounts and personnel memos.
As might be expected, this comes at the expense of narrative.
But the price of artistic freedom comes at the expense of professional protection.
He asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?
Gourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.
I couldn't help laughing, and he made a great many jokes at the expense of the waiters and everybody else.
To meet this heavy expense the ministers had to devise all sorts of expedients to raise money.
Poor Hephzibah obeyed; she little suspected the heartless trick played at her expense.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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