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expense
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)
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
- (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)
- (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
- 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
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expensiveness
English
Etymology
expensive +? -ness
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sp?ns?vn?s/, [?k-], [-?sp?ns?v?n?s], [-?v?n?s]
Noun
expensiveness (usually uncountable, plural expensivenesses)
- The state of being expensive; the entailing of great expense.
- 1743, John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, London: G. Whitfield, 1796, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part II, III.1, p. 212, [1]
- Surely you cannot be ignorant, that the sinfulness of fine apparel lies chiefly in the expensiveness. In that it is robbing God and the Poor; it is defrauding the fatherless and the widow; it is wasting the food of the hungry, and with-holding his raiment from the naked, to consume it on our own lusts.
- 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, Chapter 14: Formal Dinners, [2]
- Enchanting dining-rooms and tables have been achieved with an outlay amounting to comparatively nothing. ¶ There is a dining-room in a certain small New York house that is quite as inviting as it is lacking in expensiveness.
- 1743, John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, London: G. Whitfield, 1796, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part II, III.1, p. 212, [1]
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