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

1. noun. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Loss.
4. noun. a detriment or sacrifice

   "at the expense of"

5. noun. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

   Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement

6. noun. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

   "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"

7. verb. reduce the estimated value of something

   "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer"

Synonyms

disbursal, disbursement

Common word forms

expensed, expenses, expensing, expenseful, expenseless

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for EXPENSE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.