Meaning of EXPENSE
| Pronunciation: | | ik'spens
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- [n] a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
- [n] amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- [n] 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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| | Synonyms: | | disbursal, disbursement |
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| | See Also: | | budget items, business expense, cost, detriment, expenditure, hurt, incidental, incidental expense, interest expense, lobbying expense, medical expense, minor expense, moving expense, operating cost, operating expense, outgo, outlay, overhead, personal expense, trade expense, travel expense | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | amount, bereavement, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, decrement, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disbursement, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expenditure, expense account, expenses, fee, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, general expenses, impairment, indirect costs, injury, labor costs, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, operating costs, operating expense, outgoings, outlay, overhead, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, score, spending, spoliation, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, toll, total loss, unit cost |
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