expense
noun
[ ɪkˈspɛns ]
• the cost incurred in or required for something.
• "conference rooms were equipped at great expense"
Similar:
cost,
price,
charge,
outlay,
fee,
tariff,
toll,
levy,
payment,
amount,
rate,
figure,
damage,
expense
verb
• offset (an item of expenditure) as an expense against taxable income.
• "up to $17,500 in capital expenditures can be expensed in the year they were incurred"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, alteration of Old French espense, from late Latin expensa (pecunia) ‘(money) spent’, from Latin expendere ‘pay out’ (see expend).
