expense
/ɪkˈspɛns/ · noun
Meaning
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
- Loss.
- To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend. Doublet of speso.
- expendō(la)→
- expēnsa(la-lat)→
- espense(fro)→
- expense(xno)→
- expense(enm)→
- *(s)pend-(ine-pro)→
- expense (English)
- Relations: root, inh, der, der, der, der
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