expense

expense
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expenses
1) N-VAR Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something.

He's bought a specially big TV at vast expense so that everyone can see properly...

To avoid extra expense and mess later on, try to decide on fittings before the plastering's finished...

It was not a fortune but would help to cover household expenses.

2) N-PLURAL: oft poss N Expenses are amounts of money that you spend while doing something in the course of your work, which will be paid back to you afterwards.

As a member of the International Olympic Committee her fares and hotel expenses were paid by the IOC...

Can you claim this back on expenses?

3) PHRASE: PHR after v If you do something at someone's expense, they provide the money for it.

Should architects continue to be trained for five years at public expense?...

Teachers who signed up did so out of personal choice and at their own expense.

4) PHRASE: PHR after v If someone laughs or makes a joke at your expense, they do it to make you seem foolish.

I think he's having fun at our expense.

5) PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR n If you achieve something at the expense of someone, you do it in a way which might cause them some harm or disadvantage.

But skeptics worry that costs may be trimmed at the expense of the patient...

According to this study, women have made notable gains at the expense of men.

6) PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR n (disapproval) If you say that someone does something at the expense of another thing, you are expressing concern at the fact that they are not doing the second thing, because the first thing uses all their resources.

They are worth having but not at the expense of better services...

The orchestra has more discipline now, but at the expense of spirit.

7) PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR of -ing, PHR to-inf If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.

Why go to the expense of buying an electric saw when you can hire one?...

It was said that he went to great expense to install a lift in the building.

8) to spare no expense → see spare

English dictionary. 2008.

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