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How to pronounce expense in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms disbursal, disbursement
Type of cost
Has types budget items, business expense, lobbying expense, medical expense, moving expense, non-cash expense, operating cost, operating expense, overhead, personal expense, trade expense, interest expense
Type Words
Synonyms write down, write off
Type of depreciate
Type Words
Type of detriment, hurt


at the expense of.
Type Words
Type of expenditure, spending, outgo, outlay
Has types minor expense, incidental, incidental expense, travel expense


he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting.

Examples of expense

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The IRS will be looking carefully, too, at hobby expense versus a real business.
From the newsday.com
Employers need to understand the holiday gathering and expense is not necessary.
From the desmoinesregister.com
I support a stadium and the NFL but not at the expense of the taxpayer or bonds.
From the ocregister.com
If he gets suspended again, I'd probably cut him and eat the salary cap expense.
From the post-gazette.com
That can add as much as 0.4 percentage points to the expense ratio, experts say.
From the businessweek.com
Those 1.4% expense ratios on mutual funds will add up to a bundle over 30 years.
From the businessweek.com
The Lib Dems believe this would favor them at the expense of the bigger parties.
From the time.com
Salary is base plus commission, quarterly bonus and a monthly expense allowance.
From the jobview.monster.com
Sir Peter resigned after details of Mr Djanogly's expense claims were published.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
  • Reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"
  • A detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
  • Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
  • In common usage, an expense or expenditure is an outflow of money to another person or group to pay for an item or service, or for a category of costs. For a tenant, rent is an expense. For students or parents, tuition is an expense. ...
  • A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds; That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. ...
  • (Expenses) These are the expenses that an insurance provider will consider for payment for example medical expenses due to contracting food poisoning.
  • (Expenses) things you pay money for - both needs and wants.
  • (Expenses) All normal out-of-pocket business costs incurred while the speaker travels to and from client events. These normally include airfare, taxi-fare, car rental costs, lodging, gratuities, special phone calls having to do with the event, meals, and last-minute presentational materials. ...