expense

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: ex=pense
• COUNT in NET: 6 in 6 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

expense, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.].

•  A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.  [1913 Webster]

  "Husband nature's riches from expense."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Loss.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "And moan the expense of many a vanished sight."  [1913 Webster]

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

expense, n.
1 cost incurred; payment of money.
2 (usu. in pl.) a costs incurred in doing a particular job etc. (will pay your expenses). b an amount paid to reimburse this (offered me {pound}40 per day expenses).
3 a thing that is a cause of much expense (the house is a real expense to run).

Idiom

at the expense of so as to cause loss or damage or discredit to. expense account a list of an employee's expenses payable by the employer.

Etymology

ME f. AF, alt. of OF espense f. LL expensa (money) spent, past part. of L expendere EXPEND

THESAURUS

expense

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

ROGET THESAURUS

expense

Price

N price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage, fare, hire, wages, value, dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax, doomage, likin, gabel, gabelle, gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff, brokerage, wharfage, freightage, bill, shot, priced, to the tune of, ad valorem, dutiable, mercenary, venal, no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche.