expense

  1. Noun.  A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
  2. Noun.  That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
  3. Noun.  (obsolete) Loss.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

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