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US
/ɪkˈspɛns/
]
[ UK /ɛkspˈɛns/ ]
[ UK /ɛkspˈɛns/ ]
NOUN
- amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
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a detriment or sacrifice
at the expense of -
money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting
VERB
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reduce the estimated value of something
For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer
How To Use expense In A Sentence
- We've been saved a lot of expense by doing the work ourselves.
- Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic. Chapter 1
- You may also have added expense for client lunches and entertainment. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
- Whether we may not, for the same use, manufacture divers things at home of more beauty and variety than wainscot, which is imported at such expense from Norway? Querist
- The move comes as the telephone company implements a plan to trim billions of dollars in expenses and to boost earnings.
- Whilst not the first so to do but well before the bandwagon hove into view, I proposed that MPs expenses must be place in full, unexpurgated, unredacted beauty online as are those of MSPs by the Scottish Parliament. Where The Huntsman leads, the hounds follow
- And I was, at what seemed to me to be the munificent salary of $20,000 a year, plus expenses.
- She rationalized the expense by saying that the costly carpet she had bought would last longer than a cheaper one.
- Would you stop making jokes at my expense?
- Any expenses incurred by volunteers will be reimbursed.
