travel and entertainment account
- noun
- Specialized
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cuenta de gastos
- The company provided a travel and entertainment account for its sales staff to cover client meetings and trips.
Examples
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She was careful to submit all receipts for reimbursement from her travel and entertainment account.
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Abuse of the travel and entertainment account can lead to disciplinary action within the firm.
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She submitted her travel and entertainment account for reimbursement.
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The company allows a travel and entertainment account for all executives.
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The company provided a travel and entertainment account for its sales staff to cover client meetings and trips.
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She was careful to submit all receipts for reimbursement from her travel and entertainment account.
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Abuse of the travel and entertainment account can lead to disciplinary action within the firm.
Synonyms
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3.9
An account employees use to charge business travel, meals, and entertainment costs that their employer pays back
Surface Forms
Morphology
travel + and + entertainment + account
The phrase is a straightforward modifier-noun composition: 'travel' and 'entertainment' specify the kinds of expenses and 'account' denotes a record or expense account. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer it refers to an account for travel and entertainment expenses because this construction follows normal, cross-linguistically common compositional patterns, despite being somewhat domain-specific.
Etymology
Travel and entertainment account is a name from the simple idea of a company giving staff a special 'account' to pay for travel, meaning trips, and entertainment, meaning meals or client events. So, it means 'an account used by employees to charge business travel and client entertainment expenses'.