expense

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• Loss.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment

Origin

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