Definitions for expense
ɪkˈspɛnsex·pense

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. expense, disbursal, disbursementnoun

   amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

2. expensenoun

   a detriment or sacrifice

   "at the expense of"

3. expenseverb

   money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

   "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"

4. expense, write off, write downverb

   reduce the estimated value of something

   "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. expensenoun

   A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.

2. expensenoun

   That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.

   Jones reached the final at the expense of Jones, who couldnu00B4t beat him.

3. expensenoun

   Loss.

4. expenseverb

   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.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. EXPENSEnoun

   Cost; charges; money expended.

   Etymology: expensum, Latin.

   Hence comes that wild and vast expense,
   That hath enforc’d Rome’s virtue thence,
   Which simple poverty first made. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

   A feast prepar’d with riotous expense,
   Much cost, more care, and most magnificence. Dryden.

   I can see no reason by which we were obliged to make those prodigious expenses. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Expense

   An expense is an item requiring an outflow of money, or any form of fortune in general, to another person or group as payment for an item, service, or other category of costs. For a tenant, rent is an expense. For students or parents, tuition is an expense. Buying food, clothing, furniture, or an automobile is often referred to as an expense. An expense is a cost that is "paid" or "remitted", usually in exchange for something of value. Something that seems to cost a great deal is "expensive". Something that seems to cost little is "inexpensive". "Expenses of the table" are expenses for dining, refreshments, a feast, etc. In accounting, expense is any specific outflow of cash or other valuable assets from a person or company to another person or company. This outflow is generally one side of a trade for products or services that have equal or better current or future value to the buyer than to the seller. Technically, an expense is an event in which a proprietary stake is diminished or exhausted, or a liability is incurred. In terms of the accounting equation, expenses reduce owners' equity. The International Accounting Standards Board defines expenses as:...decreases in economic benefits during the accounting period in the form of outflows or depletions of assets or incurrences of liabilities that result in decreases in equity, other than those relating to distributions to equity participants. Expense is a term also used in sociology, in which a particular fortune or price is sacrificed voluntarily or involuntarily by something or someone to something or somebody else, often in the context that the latter is taking advantage of the former.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. expense

   An expense is a cost or charge incurred in the operation of a business, usually with the aim of generating revenue. Expenses may be in the form of actual cash payments, such as wages and salaries, or in the form of a depreciation or depletion of assets, and are usually tax-deductible.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Expensenoun

   a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure

2. Expensenoun

   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

3. Expensenoun

   loss

4. Etymology: [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Expense

   In common usage, an expense or expenditure is an outflow of money to another person or group to pay for an item or service, or for a category of costs. For a tenant, rent is an expense. For students or parents, tuition is an expense. Buying food, clothing, furniture or an automobile is often referred to as an expense. An expense is a cost that is "paid" or "remitted", usually in exchange for something of value. Something that seems to cost a great deal is "expensive". Something that seems to cost little is "inexpensive". "Expenses of the table" are expenses of dining, refreshments, a feast, etc. In accounting, expense has a very specific meaning. It is an outflow of cash or other valuable assets from a person or company to another person or company. This outflow of cash is generally one side of a trade for products or services that have equal or better current or future value to the buyer than to the seller. Technically, an expense is an event in which an asset is used up or a liability is incurred. In terms of the accounting equation, expenses reduce owners' equity. The International Accounting Standards Board defines expenses as

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. expense

   A type of truthful cost.

   Expenses are paid by many organizations and businesses.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Cost
   • Depreciate
   • Detriment

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'expense' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3589

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'expense' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3621

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'expense' in Nouns Frequency: #970

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of expense in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of expense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of expense in a Sentence

1. John Demers:

   The Chinese government has made it a priority to develop its technological knowledge at American expense.

2. Lori Lightfoot:

   What it gets is they get to try to flex their power, but they do it at the expense of our children, they do it at the expense of our families. We know that when we were fully remote previously, 100,000 of our kids lost contact and would disengage from the system. We saw in the elementary schools the failure rate during remote learning triple from what it was. We saw the trauma and social emotional harm to students across our system.

3. Jesse Greenberg:

   I think one of the misconceptions out there is that a company like ours is somehow going gangbusters at the expense of this virus and that couldn't be farther than the truth, prices have gone up. We're not passing any of those costs on to our customers. In fact, many of the items we handle, we're selling at a loss.

4. Loren Weisman:

   Profit at the expense of no one.

5. Elizabeth Denham:

   New technologies that use data analytics to micro-target people give campaign groups the ability to connect with individual voters. But this cannot be at the expense of transparency, fairness and compliance with the law.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=expense
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Expense
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=expense
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expense
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expense
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=expense