Expense
WordNet
noun
(1) A detriment or sacrifice
"At the expense of"
(2) Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
(3) Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
"He kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
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Etymology
From expensa, or expensum, from expensus, past participle of expendere. See expend.
Noun
- 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.
- Loss.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
Verb
- 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.