expensed
- 1Simple past and past participle of expense.
The consultant expensed her flights and meals back to the client.
All travel costs were expensed to the project budget by the end of the quarter.
Note
A regular -ed form of a verb that shares its spelling with the noun for spending or cost: here the cost becomes something charged to an account. Because the verb is transitive, the participle sits easily in the passive (the meals were expensed). The object is always the cost itself, and the account or employer that absorbs it follows with to: expensed to the client, expensed to the project budget.
expensed is a form of expense
expense, verb: To charge a cost against an expense account, billing it to the company one works for. Full entry
- Spelling
- expense → expensed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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