expense
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- n amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- n a detriment or sacrifice
at the expense of - n money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting - v reduce the estimated value of something
- Two-000 much: There was no point in explaining that the millennium doesn't start till 2001; the whole world was primed for a huge party, and spared no expense in carrying it out.
- Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, a onetime amateur boxer who has been taking some quick professional jabs at expense-account living, last week issued his "final".
- The whole rationale of the expense-account societyaside from the benefits reaped by free-spenders of the company's moneyis that the uninhibited use of high-priced.