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expenses

  • plural of expense.
  • present tense form of expense (3rd person singular).

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Then they ask donors to lift restrictions and allow the money to be spent on operating expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

College leaders are cutting programs, laying off faculty—and digging into endowments to pay operating expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

In Australia, Adams was accused of spending taxpayer dollars on personal expenses.

From Salon Aug. 1, 2026

That forecast does not include long-term-care expenses, such as home healthcare support, assisted living or extended nursing-home stays.

From MarketWatch Jul. 31, 2026

We could not place our feet comfortably on the ground; for we were impatient that they should carry us toward either death or valor; toward, at all expenses, events that could be known.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson