expense
Plural: expenses
Noun
- amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- a detriment or sacrifice
- "at the expense of"
- money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
- "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
- Loss.
Verb
Verb Forms: expensed, expensing, expenses
- To record as an item of cost or charge.
- reduce the estimated value of something
- To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
Examples
- Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run.
- He had to expense the strategic blunder of leaving an open triple-word score.
- It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.
- Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.
- She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.
- We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend. Doublet of speso.
Synonyms
disbursal, disbursement, write down, write off, charge, cost, expenditure, outlay, payment
Scrabble Score: 16
expense: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexpense: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
expense: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary