Expense

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something spent to attain a goal or accomplish a purpose: an expense of time and energy on the project.
  • n. A loss for the sake of something gained; a sacrifice: achieved speed at the expense of accuracy.
  • n. An expenditure of money; a cost: an improvement that was well worth the expense; a trip with all expenses paid.
  • n. Charges incurred by an employee in the performance of work: was reimbursed for her travel expenses.
  • n. Informal Money allotted for payment of such charges.
  • n. Something requiring the expenditure of money: Redecorating the house will be a considerable expense.
  • n. Archaic The act of expending.
  • v. To charge with expenses.
  • v. To write off as an expense.
  • idiom. at (one's) expense To one's detriment or chagrin: telling jokes at my expense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
  • n. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
  • n. Loss.
  • v. To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Loss.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money; employment and consumption, as of time or labor; expenditure.
  • n. Specifically Great or undue expenditure; prodigality.
  • n. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; especially, money expended; cost; charge: as, a prudent man limits his expenses by his income.
  • n. Cost through diminution or deterioration; damage or loss from any detracting cause, especially a moral one: preceded by at: as, he did this at the expense of his character.
  • To charge or debit with an item of incurred expense to be collected from the proper party and accounted for by the chargee: used chiefly in dealings between express or railway companies or their agencies.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a detriment or sacrifice
  • n. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
  • v. reduce the estimated value of something
  • n. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
  • Verb Form
    expensed    expenses    expensing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hurt    detriment    depreciate   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disbursement    expenditure    cost    outlay    charge    loss    sumptuary   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Spence    cents    commence    commonsense    condense    defence    defense    dense    dispense    fence   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cost    expenditure    benefit    income    debt    fund    risk    payment    charge    account