noun

1. Obsolete the act of expending; a spending or using up
2. financial cost; fee; charge
3. any cost or sacrifice
4. 1. charges or costs met with in running a business, doing one's work, maintaining property, etc.
   2. money to pay for these charges
5. 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

transitive verb expensed -·pensed′, expensing -·pensing

1. to charge or record as an expense
2. to charge to an expense account