expense
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2.7
- noun
- /ɪkˈspɛns/
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gasto
- What do you anticipate your legal expenses to be?
- medical expenses
- travel expenses
- living expenses
It'll be the single biggest expense in a couple of years.
- It'll be the single biggest expense in a couple of years.
- All of these are expenses that you can deduct.
- And today our debt, our expenses are a trillion dollars a year.
- But of course they didn't have the added expenses of Starbucks and Netflix.
- From there you determine OK, what are my expenses and what's my profit?
- Fine, big deal, you cut expenses, you were safe.
- And one of the biggest expenses in life are your kids.
- I compile and tabulate our expenses versus what we generate.
- If there's plenty of cash that pays all the expenses, then you're probably fine.
- Three to six months of living expenses set aside is good enough.
- You either get more revenue somehow or you decrease your expenses somehow, right.
- That's with no employees, no overhead cost, no expenses, no advertising.
- They don't love how much that expense line is going to grow.
Examples
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The company needs to keep track of its operating expenses to ensure profitability.
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It'll be the single biggest expense in a couple of years.
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But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved... ...in the arms race, the space race and the peace race.
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So this is a huge new expense and these guys have to be trained.
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And that adds a certain expense to the bottom line.
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The entire expense is unnecessary.
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Three to six months of living expenses set aside is good enough.
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How do you reduce your entertainment expenses and still keep your kids happy?
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And today our debt, our expenses are a trillion dollars a year.
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Consequently, we'll cut our expenses and double our profits.
Synonyms
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1.0
The amount of money needed to buy or do something
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1.7
Money used to buy goods and services
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5.6
Money that a person or organization spends
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6.9
An amount of money spent on something
Regular payments you must make, like rent or bills
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.9
An account employees use to charge business travel, meals, and entertainment costs that their employer pays back
- Specialized
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4.7
A regular cost for running a business, for example rent or electricity
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3.0
Money paid to move your things to a new home, for example for a truck or packing
- Specialized
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3.9
Money a company pays for borrowing money recorded as a cost in its accounts
- Specialized
An expense shown in company records that does not involve real cash
- Specialized
A cost a business has when running its normal work, like travel to meet clients
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word expense comes from Latin parts ex- ('out') and pendere ('to weigh' or 'to pay'), originally meaning money 'paid out'. You can see the same root in pension ('a regular payment'), and that's why expense means an amount of money spent for a particular purpose.