different between expense vs penalty
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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penalty
English
Alternative forms
- pœnalty (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French pénalité
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n?lti/
- Hyphenation: pen?al?ty
Noun
penalty (plural penalties)
- A legal sentence.
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- In sports
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
Synonyms
- punition
- punishment
- sentence
Derived terms
Related terms
- penal
- penality (rare)
- penalize
Descendants
- ? Gulf Arabic: ?????? (balanti)
- ? Spanish: penalti
Translations
See also
- free kick
Anagrams
- a-plenty, aplenty, netplay
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pe?nal?ty
Noun
penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)
- penalty kick
French
Alternative forms
- pénalty
Etymology
Borrowed from English penalty, itself a borrowing from French pénalité (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of pénalité.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.nal.ti/
Noun
penalty m (plural penaltys or penalties)
- (sports) penalty, penalty kick
Further reading
- “penalty” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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