About The Word Expense
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Expense
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What's The Definition Of Expense?
[n] a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
[n] amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [n] money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting" Synonyms | Synonyms for Expense: disbursal | disbursement Related Terms | Find terms related to Expense: amount | bereavement | budget | budget items | burden of expenditure | carrying charge | charge | charges | cost | cost of living | cost-of-living allowance | cost-of-living index | costs | damage | dead loss | debit | decrement | denial | denudation | deprivation | despoilment | destruction | detriment | direct costs | disbursals | disbursement | dispossession | distributed costs | divestment | expenditure | expense account | expenses | fee | figure | forfeit | forfeiture | general expenses | impairment | indirect costs | injury | labor costs | liabilities | loser | losing | losing streak | loss | material costs | operating costs | operating expense | outgoings | outlay | overhead | payment | perdition | price | price tag | prime cost | privation | rate | replacement cost | robbery | ruin | sacrifice | score | spending | spoliation | stripping | swindle sheet | tab | taking away | toll | total loss | unit cost See Also | budget items | business expense | cost | detriment | expenditure | hurt | incidental | incidental expense | interest expense | lobbying expense | medical expense | minor expense | moving expense | operating cost | operating expense | outgo | outlay | overhead | personal expense | trade expense | travel expense Expense In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pense"\, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum,
fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See {Expend}.]
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from expense. --Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost;
outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or
damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the
expenses of war; an expense of time.
Courting popularity at his party's expense.
--Brougham.
3. Loss. [Obs.] --Shak.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
--Spenser.
{Expense magazine} (Mil.), a small magazine containing
ammunition for immediate use. --H. L. Scott.
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