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| 1. | cost or charge: the expense of a good meal. |
| 2. | a cause or occasion of spending: A car can be a great expense. |
| 3. | the act of expending; expenditure. |
| 4. | expenses,
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| 5. | to charge or write off as an expense. |
| 6. | to be expensed. |
| 7. | at the expense of, at the sacrifice of; to the detriment of: quantity at the expense of quality. |
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tr.v. ex·pensed, ex·pens·ing, ex·pens·es
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin (pecūnia) expēnsa, (money) paid out, feminine past participle of expendere, to pay out; see expend.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
expense
1382, from Anglo-Fr. expense, O.Fr. espense "money provided for expenses," from L.L. expensa "disbursement," prop. neut. pl. pp. of L. expendere "to weigh out money, to pay down" (see expend). Expensive first recorded 1628 with a sense of "given to profuse expenditure," but by 1634 meaning "costly." L. spensa also yielded M.L. spesa, which was borrowed into O.H.G. as spisa and is the root of Ger. Spiese "food."
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| expense | |
noun | |
| 1. | amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) |
| 2. | a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of" |
| 3. | money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting" |
verb | |
| 1. | reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
exˈpense1 [-s] noun
the spending of money etc; cost
Example: I've gone to a lot of expense to educate you well.
exˈpense2 [-s] nounExample: I've gone to a lot of expense to educate you well.
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a cause of spending
Example: What an expense clothes are!
See also: at the expense of, expenditure, expenses, expensive, expendExample: What an expense clothes are!
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Expense
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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