expense
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin expensa, or expensum, from expensus, past participle of expendere. See expend.
[edit] Pronunciation
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ɛns
[edit] Noun
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expense (plural expenses)
- A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 44:
- Husband nature's riches from expense.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 44:
- That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
- (obsolete) Loss.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
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[edit] Translations
that which is expended, laid out, or consumed
courting popularity at his party's expense
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[edit] Verb
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to expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)
- (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
- It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.
[edit] Derived terms
- expense magazine, (Military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary
