expense
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.
to charge or write off as an expense.
to be expensed.
Idioms about expense
at the expense of, at the sacrifice of; to the detriment of: quantity at the expense of quality.
Origin of expense
1synonym study For expense
Other words for expense
Other words from expense
- ex·pense·less, adjective
- pre·ex·pense, noun
Words Nearby expense
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How to use expense in a sentence
The banks cited a need to reduce expenses to offset the cost of credit souring during the pandemic as well as spending to comply with stricter regulation and invest in digital technology.
The incredibly shrinking banking sector is heading for near-record job losses this year | Bernhard Warner | September 16, 2020 | FortuneIf Oracle’s interest in TikTok is primarily about cloud computing, the deal could come at the expense of Google, which is Oracle’s longtime nemesis and which currently provides cloud services to TikTok.
It will make markets and the capitalist system function better by rewarding positive contributions to well-being and prosperity, not wealth transfers at the expense of others.
50 years later, Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead | jakemeth | September 13, 2020 | FortuneStill, Walter Hyde hasn’t been able to raise his staff’s pay to $10 an hour this year like he planned, with all the extra expenses of masks and gloves.
The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save | by Lydia DePillis, Justin Elliott and Paul Kiel | September 12, 2020 | ProPublicaCitron Reseach thanked Hinddenburg in a tweet, offering to pay for half of any legal expenses incurred.
Nikola shares slump after blanket denial of short-seller report | radmarya | September 11, 2020 | Fortune
Stripped of these frills, the only real expense of a prison wedding is the officiant.
Mattson says the government bogarts this stuff, gathered at taxpayer expense, and maintains “a monopoly on the data.”
They even posted mundane administrative materials, including expense accounts and personnel memos.
As might be expected, this comes at the expense of narrative.
Bayonetta Is Nintendo’s Graphic, Ass-Kicking Barbie | Alec Kubas-Meyer | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the price of artistic freedom comes at the expense of professional protection.
Reconsidering Renée Zellweger: Forever a Hollywood-Pretty Character Actress | Teo Bugbee | October 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe asked what time was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what degree of expense?
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftGourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellI couldn't help laughing, and he made a great many jokes at the expense of the waiters and everybody else.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayTo meet this heavy expense the ministers had to devise all sorts of expedients to raise money.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonPoor Hephzibah obeyed; she little suspected the heartless trick played at her expense.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
British Dictionary definitions for expense
/ (ɪkˈspɛns) /
a particular payment of money; expenditure
money needed for individual purchases; cost; charge
(plural) incidental money spent in the performance of a job, commission, etc, usually reimbursed by an employer or allowable against tax
something requiring money for its purchase or upkeep: the car was more of an expense than he had expected
at the expense of to the detriment of: he succeeded at the expense of his health
(tr) US and Canadian to treat as an expense for book-keeping or tax purposes
Origin of expense
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with expense
see at the expense of; go to the trouble (expense); money (expense) is no object.
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