expense

About 18.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.

   She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.

2. noun The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.

   Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.

3. noun Loss.
4. verb 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.

Similar words

disbursal disbursement expenditure spend spending outlay payment repayment rebate cost

Often followed by

of and to in for is account accounts was

Word family

at their own expense expensed expenses expensing