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Webster 1913 Edition
Expense
Ex-pense′
,Noun.
1.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature’s riches from
expense
. Shakespeare
2.
That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; – sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls;
as, the
. expenses
of war; an expense
of timeCourting popularity at his party's
expense
. Brougham.
3.
Loss.
[Obs.]
Shak.
And moan the
expense
of many a vanished sight. Spenser.
Expense magazine
(Mil.)
, a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.
H. L. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Expense
EXPENSE
,Noun.
1.
Money expended; cost; charge; that which is disbursed in payment or in charity. A prudent man limits his expenses by his income. The expenses of war are rarely or never reimbursed by the acquisition either of goods or territory.2.
That which is used, employed, laid out or consumed; as the expense of time or labor.Definition 2024
expense
expense
English
Noun
expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses)
- A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending 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.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 44:
- Husband nature's riches from expense.
- That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
- Jones reached the final at the expense of Jones, who couldn´t beat him.
- (obsolete) Loss.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
Synonyms
- (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment
Derived terms
Translations
a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure
that which is expended, laid out, or consumed
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
expense
- vocative masculine singular of expensus
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “expense”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.