expense
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English
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Etymology
From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend.
Pronunciation
Noun
expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses)
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.
- Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run.
- We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 44:
- Husband nature's riches from expense.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
- Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.
- (obsolete) Loss.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Synonyms
- (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment
Derived terms
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Translations
a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure
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that which is expended, laid out, or consumed
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loss
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Verb
expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)
- (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
- It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.
Derived terms
- expense magazine, (military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary
Latin
Participle
expēnse
References
- “expense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- expense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- expense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.