expense

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
  2. noun a detriment or sacrifice
  3. noun money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

disbursal, disbursement

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