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noun

Expense n.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. "Husband nature's riches from expense."

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. "Courting popularity at his party's expense."

Loss. (Obs.) "And moan the expense of many a vanished sight."

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.

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"Expense" Quotes from Famous Books

... just—but you know I am a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle. 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 farther expense to anybody. A niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may say, or at least of yours, would not grow up in this neighbourhood without many advantages. I don't say she would be so handsome as her cousins. I dare say she would ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... however, is the chief item of expense. The average wages of the five hundred and twelve men employed by the Messrs. Steinway is twenty-six dollars a week. This force, aided by one hundred and two labor-saving machines, driven by steam-power equivalent to two hundred horses, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various

... superior officer passed out of sight; "just as I expected. A moment ago I was fool enough to doubt it. Now I am sure of it. Some smuggler is going to risk it to-night. Well, I shall manage badly if I don't come in for a windfall—though it be at the expense of my captain." ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... self-government. The rulers made laws and the people obeyed them; they imposed taxes and spent the money as they saw fit; many of them enriched themselves and their personally appointed official household throughout the island, at the expense of ...

— Cuba, Old and New • Albert Gardner Robinson

... Arms at the back of the stalls on the north and south sides were put up at the expense of Thomas Weaver, a former Fellow of the College, in 1633. Amongst them are the arms of England as they were at the time; those of Henry V, VI, VII, VIII, Eton and King's College—for Henry VI (no doubt following out the scheme adopted by William ...

— A Short Account of King's College Chapel • Walter Poole Littlechild

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