expense

Meaning

Noun

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.

Verb

To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Synonyms

cost

expenditure

price

charge

disbursement

outgo

outlay

payment

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spending

consumption

fee

write down

write off

disbursal

extravagance

waste of money

outgoing

rate

fare

hold down

incur

lettuce

limit

market price

outlet

overhead

rationalise

rationalize

reduce

reparations

sacrifice

salary

subtract

taper

terms

throttle

token

trim

value

wage

wages

way out

weaken

when

worth

factor out

incur expenses

abridge

trim back

ax

axe

🪓

bate

consume

damages

decrease

deduct

detract

dock

downsize

due

egress

emergence

exit

expend

expending

expenses

figure

Hyphenated as

ex‧pense

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪkˈspɛns/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: expense

In summary

From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend.