Definition of Expese
Ex*pense" (?), n. [L. expensa
(sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p.
of expendere. See Expend.] 1. A
spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from
expense. Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or
consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of
loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as,
the expenses of war; an expense of time.
Courting popularity at his party's
expense. Brougham.
3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.
And moan the expense of many a vanished
sight. Spenser.
Expense magazine (Mil.), a small
magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L.
Scott.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from expense. - Shakespeare, Sonnet XCIV
- That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
- Courting popularity at his party's expense. - Brougham?
- (Obsolete): Loss. - Shakespeare
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. - Edmund Spenser
- To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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