different between costly vs expense

English

Etymology

From Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?st.li/

Adjective

costly (comparative costlier, superlative costliest)

1. Of high cost; expensive.

   a costly activity

   a costly error

Antonyms

• costlessly

Translations

Anagrams

• octyls

English

Alternative forms

• expence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin exp?nsa, from Latin expend?. See expend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?sp?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Noun

expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses)

1. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
2. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.

3. (obsolete) Loss.

Synonyms

• (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment

Derived terms

• at the expense of
• expense account

Related terms

• expend
• expensive

Translations

Verb

expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)

1. (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Derived terms

• expense magazine, (military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot Military Dictionary

Latin

Participle

exp?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of exp?nsus

References

• expense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expense in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• expense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette