different between expense vs injury

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin ini?ria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + i?s, i?ris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/

Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a human or animal.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

3. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

See also

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

Verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

Further reading

• injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ry?jin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie