Synonyms:
expense, disbursal, disbursement
Meaning: amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
Synonyms:
expense
Meaning: a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
Synonyms:
expense
Meaning: money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
expense, write_off, write_down
Meaning: reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"
Usage examples
He's been an expense too.'
'That man--he, too, is merely an expense.'
If you can, I will pay the expense of the whole.
"The expense does not matter to you, Mr. Cheesacre."
His campaigns were carried on almost entirely without expense.
But of course you are to fit up the place at your own expense."
It will greatly increase the expense of our courts or else greatly diminish their utility.
Naturally, to pacify the aggrieved bart., Comrade B. had to lay it on regardless of expense.
Mr Hope must have justice, and you have no one to blame but yourself that justice must be done at your expense.
Have you any idea, you idiot, of the expense we're put to in setting up our fifty pages of illustrated advertising?