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Definition of Expense
1. Verb. Reduce the estimated value of something. "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"
Generic synonyms: Depreciate
Derivative terms: Write-down, Write-off, Write-off
2. Noun. Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures).
Generic synonyms: Cost
Specialized synonyms: Business Expense, Trade Expense, Interest Expense, Lobbying Expense, Medical Expense, Non-cash Expense, Moving Expense, Budget Items, Operating Cost, Operating Expense, Overhead, Personal Expense
Derivative terms: Disburse
3. Noun. A detriment or sacrifice. "At the expense of"
4. Noun. Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer. "He kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
Specialized synonyms: Incidental, Incidental Expense, Minor Expense, Travel Expense
Definition of Expense
1. n. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Definition of Expense
1. Noun. A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds. ¹
2. Noun. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Loss. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expense
1. to charge with costs [v -PENSED, -PENSING, -PENSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expense
Literary usage of Expense
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"S. Noble King, speaker State Institute 7 35 Frank I. Mann, expense as director
27 15 Treasurer Iroquois County Farmers' Institute 2 00 Frank I. Mann, ..."
2. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1869)
"OVER and above the expense necessary for enabling the sovereign to perform his
several duties, a certain expense is requisite for the support of his dignity ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"OF expense. RICHES are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions.
Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited ' by the worth of the ..."
4. Life and Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (1908)
"lions and a quarter for the expense of that war. This thirty-two millions and a
quarter, added to the former debt of twenty-one millions and a half, ..."
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