Expense

Noun

 * 1) A spending or consuming.  Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
 * 2) * William Shakespeare, Sonnet 44:
 * Husband nature's riches from expense.
 * 1) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed.  Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
 * 2)  Loss.
 * 3) * William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30:
 * And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.

Verb

 * 1)  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.

Adjectives for Expense
useless; prodigal; major; extreme; ruinous; extraordinary; minimum; profitless; miscellaneous; crushing; enormous; improper; maintenance; inescapable; considerable; financial; operating; imperial; advertising; personal; monstrous; trifling.

Verbs for Expense
advance—; appropriate for—; defray—; dread—; entail—; increase—; incur—; involve—; necessitate—; pay—; pool—; rate—; save—; slice—; spare—; survey—; trim—; —arises; —galls; —increases; — rises; —weighs.

Synonyms for Expense

 * cost, charge, outlay
 * price, payment, expenditure, outgo, disbursement, value, sum, amount, upkeep, harm, debit, loss.

Antonyms for Expense
profits, receipts, return, proceeds, revenue, product, income, gain, increase, accession, acquisition, emolument, perquisites.

Derived terms

 * expense account
 * expense magazine, (Military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary

Thesaurus
amount, bereavement, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, charge, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, damage, dead loss, debit, decrement, denial, denudation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, direct costs, disbursals, disbursement, dispossession, distributed costs, divestment, expenditure, expense account, expenses, fee, figure, forfeit, forfeiture, general expenses, impairment, indirect costs, injury, labor costs, liabilities, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, material costs, operating costs, operating expense, outgoings, outlay, overhead, payment, perdition, price, price tag, prime cost, privation, rate, replacement cost, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, score, spending, spoliation, stripping, swindle sheet, tab, taking away, toll, total loss, unit cost

Etymology
From expensa, or expensum, from expensus, past participle of expendere. See expend.

Noun

 * French: dépense


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 * German: Verlust
 * Swedish: förlust


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