'Expense' definitions:
Definition of 'expense'
From: WordNet
noun
Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: expense, disbursal, disbursement]
noun
A detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
noun
Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
verb
Reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer" [syn: expense, write off, write down]
Definition of 'Expense'
From: GCIDE
- Expense \Ex*pense"\, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
- 1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. [1913 Webster]
- Husband nature's riches from expense. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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 time. [1913 Webster]
- Courting popularity at his party's expense. --Brougham. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Loss. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. --H. L. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expense'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'Expense'
- Expensefully,
- Expensefulness,
- Expensive,
- Expensively,
- Expensiveness,
- at any expense,
- Expense magazine,
- business expense,
- expense account,
- expense record,
- incidental expense,
- interest expense,
- lobbying expense,
- medical expense,
- minor expense,
- moving expense,
- operating expense,
- organization expense,
- personal expense,
- promotional expense,
- trade expense,
- travel expense,
- non-cash expense