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noun
1.
cost or charge: the expense of a good meal.
2.
a cause or occasion of spending: A car can be a great expense.
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the act of expending; expenditure.
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expenses,
a.
charges incurred during a business assignment or trip.
b.
money paid as reimbursement for such charges: to receive a salary and expenses.
verb (used with object)
5.
to charge or write off as an expense.
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Expensing
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verb (used without object)
Idiom6.
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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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,
EXPANDwhose 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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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