expenses

expenses definition - finance
The costs incurred by a business. Expenses include everything from lease payments to payments for office equipment to salaries. Expenses are subtracted from revenues to arrive at net income.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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