expense
expense definition
ex·pense (ek spens′, ik-)
noun
- Obsolete the act of expending; a spending or using up
- financial cost; fee; charge
- any cost or sacrifice
- charges or costs met with in running a business, doing one's work, maintaining property, etc.
- money to pay for these charges
- a cause of spending; drain on one's finances a car can be a considerable expense
Etymology: ME < Anglo-Fr < LL expensa (pecunia), paid out (money) < L expensum, neut. pp. of expendere: see expend
expense Idioms
at the expense of
with the payment, onus, loss, etc. borne by
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