expense

ex-pense · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    The cost incurred in or required for something.

  2. 2.

    A thing on which money is spent.

  3. 3.

    Something sacrificed or harmed in order to achieve something else.

Forms

plural: expenses

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    at the expense of — causing harm or loss to
  • •
    spare no expense — to pay whatever is necessary
  • •
    at one's own expense — paying for oneself
  • •
    expense account — a fund for business-related costs

Related words

Antonyms: earnings, income, revenue
See also: cost, expenditure, expenses, expensive
Synonyms: cost, expenditure, outlay, payment

Etymology

From Latin expensa ("expenditure"), from expendere ("to weigh out, pay").