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expense(dictionary)
Expense(finance)
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Expense ratio(finance)
Interest expense(finance)
Non-Cash Expense(money)

expense (iou)



expense noun & verb. Also expence. LME.
[Anglo-Norman, alt. of Old French espense from late Latin expensa (sc. pecunia money) fem. of pa. pple of Latin expendere EXPEND.]
A. noun.
The action or an act of expending something; the state of being expended; disbursement; consumption; loss; = EXPENDITURE 1. Now rare. LME.
S. Johnson This exuberance of money displayed itself in wantonness of expence. U. Le Guin The protein issue..was now insufficient for full normal expense of energy.
Money expended; an amount expended. LME-M18.
W. Petty Where a People thrive, there the income is greater than the expence.
Burden of expenditure; the charge or cost involved in or required for something; in pl., the charges etc. incurred by a person in the course of working for another or undertaking any enterprise; the amount paid in reimbursement. LME.
A. Parsons Those who can afford the expence, usually go to..the sea coast. Daily Telegraph The home eleven had got 52 at an expense of two wickets. V. Woolf Nancy, dressed at enormous expense by the greatest artists in Paris. F. Tuohy Vince's fat cheque to cover the expenses of a prolonged stay in Paris.
b. A cause or occasion of expense. L19.
Oxford English Dictionary His sons have been a great expense to him.
Phrases: at a person's expense causing a person to spend money or suffer injury, ridicule, etc. at the expense of so as to cause loss, damage, or discredit to; to the detriment of. put to expense, put to great expense, etc., cause to spend (much etc.) money.
Comb.: expense account (a) an account in which are recorded other than capital payments made by a business; (b) a list of an employee's expenses payable by an employer.
b. verb trans.
Charge (a business) with expenses incurred. E20.
Offset (an expense) against taxable income. M20.
expenseful adjective costly, expensive; extravagant: E17-E18.
expenseless adjective inexpensive; frugal: M17-L18.