moving expense
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3.0
- noun
- US
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gastos de mudanza
- The company offered to cover all moving expenses when relocating employees to a new office.
- deductible moving expenses
Imagine that they also paid for moving expenses to move for me to move from North Carolina to here.
- Imagine that they also paid for moving expenses to move for me to move from North Carolina to here.
Examples
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I'll have moving expenses in the near future.
Blog text (33) -
Cover the moving expenses and everything.
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I need to save up for more moving expenses.
Blog text (20) -
Philip, I could pay for your moving expenses.
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Uh, he's allowed up to $5,000... to pay for moving expenses.
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In addition, the ministry provided 30,000 marks to defray the moving expenses of his family.
Academic text (1999) -
Before she accepted the job offer, she asked if they would reimburse her moving expenses.
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Many people find that moving expenses can add up quickly when changing homes.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the cost incurred when relocating' is directly and compositionally derived from 'moving' (relocating) modifying 'expense' (a cost). This straightforward modifier + noun pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'gastos de mudanza', French 'frais de déménagement') and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Moving expense comes from a simple image: money you pay when you are moving, for a truck, boxes, or helpers, so it is an expense. So, it means 'the cost of relocating to a new home'.