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| ex·pense [ ik spénss ] |
noun (plural ex·pens·es) |
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1. money spent on something: the amount of money spent in order to buy or do something
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2. something expensive to buy: something that costs money, usually a lot of money, to buy, keep, or run
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3. using up of something: the using up or loss of something
  preserved his integrity at the expense of his job
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4. accounting value of resource used: the value of a resource that has been used during the current accounting period and can be charged against revenues for that period
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plural noun ex·pens·es |
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business expenditures: an amount of money that somebody spends for business purposes that is reimbursable by an employer or deductible from income tax
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transitive verb (past and past participle ex·pensed, present participle ex·pens·ing, 3rd person present singular ex·pens·es) |
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1. treat something as chargeable or deductible: to identify something as an expense for tax, accounting, or expense-account purposes
expensed our moving costs
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2. charge somebody for expenses: to charge personal expenses to somebody else
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| [14th century. Via Anglo-Norman< late Latin expensa< Latin expendere (see expend)] |
