FromMiddle Englishexpense, fromAnglo-Normanexpense andOld Frenchespense, fromLate Latinexpēnsa, fromLatinexpendō. Seeexpend.
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛns/
- Rhymes:-ɛns
- Hyphenation:ex‧pense
expense (countable anduncountable,pluralexpenses)
- A spending or consuming, often adisbursement offunds.
She went to greatexpense to ensure her children would get the best education.
Buying the car was a bigexpense, but will be worth it in the long run.
We had a training weekend in New York, at theexpense of our company.
- Theelimination orconsumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
Jones reached the final at theexpense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.
- (obsolete)Loss.
a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure
- Arabic:صَرْف (ar) m(ṣarf),مَصْرُوف m(maṣrūf),مَصَارِيف pl(maṣārīf)
- Azerbaijani:xərc (az)
- Belarusian:расхо́д m(rasxód),выда́так m(vydátak)
- Bulgarian:ра́зход (bg) m(rázhod),изразхо́дване (bg) n(izrazhódvane)
- Catalan:despesa (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:費用 /费用 (zh)(fèiyòng)
- Czech:výdej (cs) m,náklad (cs) m
- Dutch:uitgave (nl) f
- Esperanto:elspezo
- French:dépense (fr) f
- Friulian:spese f
- German:Ausgabe (de) f,Aufwand (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient:δαπάνη f(dapánē)
- Hindi:ख़र्च m(xarc),व्यय (hi)(vyay),लागत (hi)(lāgat)
- Hungarian:költség (hu)
- Icelandic:útgjöld n pl
- Italian:spesa (it) f
- Japanese:支出 (ja)(ししゅつ, shishutsu),費用 (ja)(ひよう, hiyō)
- Kazakh:қаржы(qarjy)
- Korean:비용(費用) (ko)(biyong)
- Kyrgyz:каржы(karjı)
- Ladin:speisa f
- Latin:sūmptus (la) m
- Mongolian:зардал (mn)(zardal)
- Oromo:baasii
- Ottoman Turkish:اخراج(ihrâc)
- Plautdietsch:Kost f,Priess m
- Polish:ekspens (pl) m,nakład (pl) m,wydatek (pl) m
- Portuguese:despesa (pt) f
- Romanian:cheltuială (ro) f
- Russian:расхо́д (ru) m(rasxód)
- Sicilian:spisa f
- Slovak:výdavok m,náklad m
- Spanish:gasto (es) m,dispendio (es) m,expendio (es) m,expensas f pl
- Tagalog:bayarin
- Tamil:செலவு (ta)(celavu)
- Tocharian B:wyai
- Turkish:masraf (tr)
- Ukrainian:розхі́д m(rozxíd),вида́ток m(vydátok)
- Venetan:spexa f
- Volapük:fräd (vo)
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that which is expended, laid out, or consumed
Translations to be checked
expense (third-person singular simple presentexpenses,present participleexpensing,simple past and past participleexpensed)
- (transitive) Tocharge acost against anexpense account; tobill something to thecompany for which oneworks.
It should be acceptable toexpense a business lunch with a client.
expēnse
- vocativemasculinesingular ofexpēnsus
