expenses

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of expense.

   The firm covers travel expenses for all employees attending the conference.

   Rising household expenses left the couple little room for savings.

   Note

   Expense can be a mass noun for spending in general or a countable one for a single outlay. The plural belongs to the countable side and lists the separate costs: living expenses, business expenses, travel expenses. It pairs naturally with cover and reimburse. The same spelling also serves as the verb for billing costs, so in a phrase like "she expenses the hotel" the subject directly before it marks the verb.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of expense.

   The consultant expenses every client dinner to the firm.

   Whenever she travels for work, she expenses the hotel and her meals.

   Note

   A bookkeeping verb: to expense something is to charge it against an expense account and bill it to the company one works for. It is transitive, and its object is the cost itself, not the person being paid back. A meal, a hotel or a flight gets expensed, and the employer, when named, follows to: she expenses the dinner to the firm.

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