expense

== English == === Alternative forms === expence (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend. Doublet of speso. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪkˈspɛns/ Rhymes: -ɛns Hyphenation: ex‧pense === Noun === expense (countable and uncountable, plural expenses) A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. (obsolete) Loss. ==== Synonyms ==== (that which is expended): cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== expend expensive ==== Translations ==== === Verb === expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed) (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Participle === expēnse vocative masculine singular of expēnsus === References === “expense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "expense", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “expense”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.