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expenses

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noun

cost or charge: the expense of a good meal.

a cause or occasion of spending: A car can be a great expense.

the act of expending; expenditure.

expenses,

charges incurred during a business assignment or trip.

money paid as reimbursement for such charges: to receive a salary and expenses.

verb (used with object)

to charge or write off as an expense.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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verb (used without object)

to be expensed.

Idiom

at the expense of, at the sacrifice of; to the detriment of: quantity at the expense of quality.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin expēnsa, noun use of feminine of expēnsus, past participle of expendere to expend

Related forms

ex·pense·less, adjective

pre·ex·pense, noun

Synonyms
1. outlay, expenditure. See price.

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Small business owners are accustomed to thinking about revenue and expenses in terms of minimizing taxable income.

Consider setting up a separate monthly budget category that takes into account all these types of expenses.

If the business portion is only secondary, then only the direct business expenses are deductible and not the cost of the trip.

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Small business owners are accustomed to thinking about revenue and expenses in terms of minimizing taxable income.

Consider setting up a separate monthly budget category that takes into account all these types of expenses.

If the business portion is only secondary, then only the direct business expenses are deductible and not the cost of the trip.

He is thinking small to keep his vision intact and his expenses down.

Plus it would cut the size, water use of condensers, a good size part of generating expenses plus power users.

Besides, my company promised to pick up our relocation expenses.

British politicians had been caught filing what would total millions of pounds' worth of bogus personal expenses.

But a look at its itemized expenses shows some of the ways costs can start to pile up.

Employment offers include funds for moving expenses.

Probably worth having but not much surplus is left after the travel expenses are paid for.

Personal expenses such as spa services, laundry or internet usage are the responsibility of the prize winner.

The funds beat after expenses and after having to hold some in cash for redemptions.

The problem, in lucre-geek-speak, was opex: operating expenses.

Those unplanned expenses are not included in the budget, so it amounts to new debt.

Revenues minus all expenses and reinvestment are income.

Setting up a special savings account or applying for a medical credit card can help with expenses when times are lean, she said.

Anyway, it is not wise thinking about expenses done with a money that is not exactly your private property.

Participants in the high-power group considered the misreporting of travel expenses to be a significantly worse offense.

There will be unexpected delays, unforeseen expenses and problems with pipelines.

Traveler pays all field expenses for anyone on contract.

All unspecified expenses are the responsibility of winners.

With fuel prices on the rise, airlines will be looking for new ways to decrease fuel expenses.

Russia said it would pay all expenses related to the crash.

Anyone can save on energy, water and expenses related to heating by installing and correctly using a solar pool cover.

My children are both adults, both married and both fully educated with all of those expenses paid for.

Throw cargo and fee revenue into the mix and the math improves a bit, but it's safe to say that expenses aren't being covered.

Having such a variable cost base makes it easier to reduce expenses without cutting jobs.

Trip does not include taxes or any other expenses not specifically listed herein.

None of these costs take into account the price of room and board, textbooks or other necessary living expenses.

It also helps if you can add quickly, since you'll be trying to keep tabs on your net worth and adding up all your expenses.

Water coolers seem innocuous but versions that provide both hot and cold water can rival a refrigerator in energy expenses.

Money must be removed from someone to pay for greater expenses by this program.

The plan is for the bots to to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency.

For students from developed countries, funding is normally limited to per diem expenses.

Interchange don't have trouble shouldering the costs, or getting their arcade providers to cover their expenses.

Try to pick up expenses and bring small gifts, which should be offered in a semiformal manner.

Composting these materials saves you money on waste removal and gardening or landscaping expenses.

The changes have reduced the cabins' operating expenses and natural gas and electricity consumption by two-thirds.

Giuliani billed tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses to little-known city agencies as he was.

We're not going to hire her, but let's pay her expenses out here anyway".

He can feed them from the land, there are no educational expenses, clothing expenses are minimal.

Ring's expenses included hiring the hall and picking up the tasters' travel costs.

If you try to put a drone up for sale on eBay, you'd better include your legal expenses in the asking.

It will also pay for living expenses for two years of graduate school.

Shipping companies were reluctant to pay mercenary fees on top of already expensive insurance expenses.

When planning for multiple projects, requesting donations of recycled materials can keep expenses to a minimum.

Sharma had used his college credit card for personal expenses.

The income from his business helped him to meet the expenses of what he regarded as his main.

The jump in expenses appears to be due to salaries the organization recently began paying staff members.

The living expenses can be minimized to a degree by things within your control, but will always be there.

If taking on such expenses helped promote family life, it might reduce the burden on the state of looking after the old.

What they don't see, in many cases, is how they can best keep information-technology expenses in check while still meeting.

But her husband is already raiding his farm account to pay for household expenses.

It will also have great value to utility companies by cutting expenses and improving reliability.

Echostar's expenses last quarter basically gobbled up half of total revenue.

Athletics spending includes all athletics operating expenses averaged on a per athlete basis.

The efficient-market hypothesis is a useful reminder that the average investor cannot expect to beat the market after expenses.

Nye also submitted the teachers' travel expenses for payment out of the grant.

The proceeds will create an endowment to cover the fund's operating expenses and help expand its lending.

Automobile manufacturers are drastically reducing their expenses and cutting the time.

There was essentially no need-based aid for living expenses then.

Doubt anybody will cancel it because my expenses aren't reimbursed.

Of course, it goes without saying, the whole process is at the candidate's expenses.

The profit from this one trip would be several thousand pounds, even after expenses.

Define what expenses for moving and travel your college will pay for, and be sure that those expenses are paid in advance.

It's not as if people cannot do what businesses have done and cut back on expenses and save some money.

Maybe the expenses are cut now in the economic crisis and children come back home.

Design visions are blurred by market research, function falls victim to fashion and expenses are spared in the name of economics.

However a donation to cover forum expenses would be greatly appreciated.

But one way to cut back on your expenses is to make your own fog solution.

The group has yet to provide the detailed report of its contributions and expenses that was expected in.

With digital, they would be nearly instantaneous and come at almost no cost, once the onetime hardware expenses were recovered.

Kremen said, though he won't know for sure till the revenues and expenses are tallied up at the end of the month.

With out-of-pocket expenses rising, it pays to look for better deals.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

expense

late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. expense, O.Fr. espense "money provided for expenses," from L.L. expensa "disbursement, outlay, expense," prop. neut. pl. pp. of L. expendere "to weigh out money, to pay down" (see expend). Related: Expenses. Latin spensa also yielded M.L. spe(n)sa,

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whose sense specialized to "outlay for provisions," then "provisions, food," which was borrowed into O.H.G. as spisa and is the root of Ger. Speise "food," now mostly meaning prepared food, and speisen "to eat."

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Slang Dictionary

expense definition

n.
a baby; a child. (See also deduction.) : The little expense just cries, craps, and chows.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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