Expense
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
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.
Loss.
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Expense Quotations
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Jane Austen
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James Madison
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney
Expense Translations
expense in Dutch is onkosten, kosten
expense in German is Kosten {pl}, Aufwand {m}, Kosten, Aufwendung {f}
expense in Italian is emissione, dispendio, spese, spese
expense in Latin is impensa, sumptus
expense in Portuguese is despesa
expense in Spanish is gasto, dispendio, expensas, gastos
expense in Swedish is bekostnad, kostnad, utgift, omkostnad
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