Usually means: Cost incurred for goods, services.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. expense: Merriam-Webster
  2. expense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expense: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expense: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expense, expense: Wordnik
  7. expense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expense: Wiktionary
  9. expense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expense: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expense: Dictionary.com
  13. expense: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. expense: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Expense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Expense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. expense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. expense: Rhymezone
  19. expense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. expense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. expense: FreeDictionary.org
  22. expense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. expense: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. expense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. expense: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. expense: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. expense: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. EXPENSE: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Expense: Investopedia
  10. expense: Legal dictionary
  11. expense: Financial dictionary
  12. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expense: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expense: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expense: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expense)

▸ noun:  A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
▸ noun:  The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Loss.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Similar:
disbursal, disbursement, cost, expence, outlay, detriment, expenditure, benefit, defray, inconvenience, more...

Opposite:
income, revenue, profit, gain, savings

Types:
fixed, variable, direct, indirect, overhead, capital, operating, more...

Phrases:
interest expense, expense account, expense accounts, business expense, medical expense, more...

Adjectives:
own, great, public, considerable, additional, total, extra, little, enormous, small, much

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Similar:
disbursal, disbursement, cost, expence, outlay, detriment, expenditure, benefit, defray, inconvenience, more...

Opposite:
income, revenue, profit, gain, savings

Types:
fixed, variable, direct, indirect, overhead, capital, operating, more...

Phrases:
interest expense, expense account, expense accounts, business expense, medical expense, operating expense, Expense ratio, administrative expense, travel expense, personal expense, moving expense, more...

Adjectives:
own, great, public, considerable, additional, total, extra, little, enormous, small, much

Colors:
    dark green,     gold,     silver,     black,     navy blue, more...



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