Dictionary Entry
expense
expense is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Loss.
- 4noun
a detriment or sacrifice
"at the expense of"
- 5noun
amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
Synonyms
- 6noun
money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
"he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
- 7verb
reduce the estimated value of something
"For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"
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