Definition of Expense

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Expense

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

Loss.

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Expense Quotations

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Samuel Goldwyn

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Expense Translations

expense in Dutch is onkosten, kosten
expense in German is Kosten {pl}, Aufwand {m}, Kosten, Aufwendung {f}
expense in Italian is emissione, dispendio, spese, spese
expense in Latin is impensa, sumptus
expense in Portuguese is despesa
expense in Spanish is gasto, dispendio, expensas, gastos
expense in Swedish is bekostnad, kostnad, utgift, omkostnad

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