expense
/ɪkˈspɛns/ verb C2- To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. · It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.
He/she/it expenses · Past expensed · Past participle expensed · -ing form expensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- expense
- He/she/it
- expenses
- Past
- expensed
- Past participle
- expensed
- -ing form
- expensing
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The housekeeper came forward, and told them it was the picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master’s steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
I have no wish ever to score at their expense.
“By Jove!” I cried, “if he really wants someone to share the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him.
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