Expense

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Something spent to attain a goal or accomplish a purpose.
  • noun. A loss for the sake of something gained; a sacrifice.
  • noun. An expenditure of money; a cost.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Charges incurred by an employee in the performance of work.
  • noun. Money allotted for payment of such charges.
  • noun. Something requiring the expenditure of money.
  • noun. The act of expending.
  • transitive verb. To charge with expenses.
  • transitive verb. To write off as an expense.
  • idiom. (at (one's) expense) To one's detriment or chagrin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To charge or debit with an item of incurred expense to be collected from the proper party and accounted for by the chargee: used chiefly in dealings between express or railway companies or their agencies.
  • noun. A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money; employment and consumption, as of time or labor; expenditure.
  • noun. Specifically Great or undue expenditure; prodigality.
  • noun. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; especially, money expended; cost; charge: as, a prudent man limits his expenses by his income.
  • noun. Cost through diminution or deterioration; damage or loss from any detracting cause, especially a moral one: preceded by at: as, he did this at the expense of his character.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Loss.
  • noun. a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
  • noun. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
  • noun. Loss.
  • verb. To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a detriment or sacrifice
  • noun. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
  • verb. reduce the estimated value of something
  • noun. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
  • Word Usage
    "If this expense is allowed to go through, this city is going to have lot of explaining to do to taxpayers."
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