expensable

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English

Etymology

From expense +‎ -able.

Adjective

expensable (not comparable)

  1. (business) Eligible to be claimed as a business expense.
    • 1983, Singapore Business, volume 7, numbers 1-6, page 3:
      The budget also proposes to make computers and office automation expensable rather than depreciable, i.e. expenditures on these items can be written off in the year in which they were purchased rather than depreciated over time.
    • 1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52:
      Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.