expensen.

Brit.

/ᵻkˈspɛns/,

/ɛkˈspɛns/, U.S.

/ɪkˈspɛns/,

/ɛkˈspɛns/

Forms: Middle English–1800s expence, Middle English expens, exspense, 1500s exspence, Middle English– expense. See also spence n.¹

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman expense (Old French espense ), < late Latin expēnsa , originally past participle feminine of expendĕre : see expend v. Compare Spanish expensas plural, also Italian spesa, which is the only popular representative of the word in Romanic, the French and Spanish forms being of learned origin. German speise ‘viand’ is an early adoption of the Latin word.

†1. The action of expending; the state of being expended. Obsolete. Cf. expenditure n. 1.

†a. Disbursement, spending, laying out (of money); an instance of this. Also occasionally wasteful expenditure, extravagance. person of expense: one who spends largely; so also, person of great, little expense. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun]

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1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 153 That he mesure in his expence So kepe, that of indigence He may be sauf.

c1430 Compl. Christ 169 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 179 My waast expensis y wole with-drawe.

1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 7^v Extraordinarie Expence must bee limited by the worth of the occasion.

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I4 This suddaine solemne Feast Was not ordayn'd to riott in expence.

1660 tr. St. John Chrysostom in F. Quarles Boanerges & Barnabas (ed. 5) 18 God is not honoured in the expence of that money which is bedewed with the teares of the Oppressed.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 95 A man of great expence.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 26. ⁋3 This exuberance of money displayed itself in wantonness of expence.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 141 All of them..dread a woman of expence.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. ix. 165 An obscure house of entertainment for persons of small expence.

†b. The expending or using up (of material or immaterial resources); the state of being expended or used up; expenditure (of substance, strength, labour, time, etc.); loss (of blood, etc., of men in battle, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > [noun]

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missOE

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tinec1330

tinsela1340

leesing1362

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tininga1400

amissionc1429

misture1563

expense1593

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun]

spendinga1430

use1440

consumptionc1522

abuse1539

spensec1547

abusinga1555

waste1569

expense1593

dispendium1648

expenditure1812

using-up1863

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xi. 81 With bootelesse expense of trauaile.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 519 I implore so much expence of thy royal sweete breath, as will vtter a brace of wordes.

1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. D3 My body..yet is faint With much expence of bloud.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §352 Fire and Flame are in continual expence.

1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. ii. 13 After the expence of about 14 men upon it, the designe was given over.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 293 They..move as other Meteors do, from a certain expence of their own substance the one way, which inforceth their motion another.

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power & Harmony Prosaic Numbers 70 The former require too great Expense of Breath to pronounce them.

1752 B. Franklin Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 266 The sun is not wasted by expence of light.

1797 Ld. Nelson 23 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) XII. p. cxliv No service that could have made an expense [of stores].

†c. Consumption (of produce, provisions). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [noun]

usagea1500

use1586

expense1587

expending1745

discussion1814

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 156 The gentlemen commonlie make sufficient malt for their owne expenses onelie.

1594 Briefe Notes Benefits Obseruation Fish-daies (?1627) Proclamations, for the expence and obseruation of Fish-dayes.

1668 Markham's Way to Wealth ix. iii. i. 96 To gather [Pears] for expence, for transportation, or to sell.

†d. Loss (of a possession). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B4^v Enter vpon..Her honor, which she calls her chastity And bring it into expence.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 Then can I..mone th' expence of many a vannisht sight.

†2. Money expended (cf. expenditure n. 2); a sum expended. Obsolete.The apparent instances in recent use belong to 3 or 3c.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > instance or amount of

expense1382

reparation1421

spending1617

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxi. 19 That he restore..the expensis into leches.

c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 32 If a Kyng be powre, he schal by necessite make his Expences..by Creaunce of borrowyng.

1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 111 The Country loses the Expence of many of the richest Persons.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) vii. 103 Where a People thrive, there the income is greater than the expence.

1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xi. iv, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 337 You..do not supply them with the expences..for the offering their sacrifices.

1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 402 The difference betwixt these, is the expense which the farmer may lay out.

in extended use.1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) ii. ii. 78 The Receipts from the Rivers fall short of the Expence in Vapour.1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 616 As to the Expence of the Sea-Water by Vapour, he concludes the Receipts of the Mediterranean to fall short of its expence.

a. Burden of expenditure; the pecuniary charge, cost, or sacrifice involved in any course of action, mode of living, etc., or requisite for the attainment of any object. Also transferred. [Originally a contextual use of 1.]

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses

costningc1275

spense1297

costagesa1325

misesa1325

spenses1377

dispensec1380

expensesc1384

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resaillec1450

chargec1460

charges1514

outgiving1556

disbursement1607

going-outs1607

defalcation1622

outgoing1622

expense1632

outgoa1641

damage1755

outset1755

expenditure1791

outspend1859

ex1864

paid-out1883

outs1884

x's1894

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 27 Many companies of souldiers to be levied..without a penny of expence, of either his, or his complices.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 102. ¶11 I have several little plain Fans made for this Use, to avoid Expence.

a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iii. 65 Those who can afford the expence, usually go to some part of the sea coast.

1799 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 277 The direct tax and stamp tax will add two millions clear of expence.

1837 ‘Nimrod’ Chace, Turf, & Road ii. 133 All got up..‘regardless of expense’.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 142 The scale of expense on which people live.

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 135 A long list of legal expenses.

figurative.1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 454/2 Who took upon herself the whole expenses of the flying colloquies exchanged with stragglers on the road.

b. Phrases. †to lie at expense: (of a prisoner) to be a cause of outlay. at an expense of: at a cost or loss amounting to. at the expense of: at the cost of (a certain sum), by the sacrifice of (something); so at (a) great, little, etc. expense. to be at expense: to incur expenditure; so, to put (a person) to expense. to be at the expense, expenses (of): to defray the costs (of); also const. to with infinitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > loss or gain [phrase] > to the loss or diminution of

at the waring ofc1480

at the expense of1710

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 41 Now what expence soever he is at, he proclaimeth.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 6 He lies at expense. I move therefore, to call him in.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 262. ⁋3 The new Pair of Gloves and Coach-hire that he was at the Expence of in her Service.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 153 Some part of that mer one Mr. Fleetewood has been at the Expence to draine.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶7 He is at no more Expence in a long Vista, than a short one.

1713 H. Martyn in Guardian 21 Mar. 1/2 Where, at the Expence of 4 or 5000l...he built a new one.

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) iii. 62 Vowing to guard the princess at the expence of his life.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 371 We have been at such expence and trouble.

1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 160 All operations between the tropics are at an immense expense of human lives.

1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 52 At a considerable expense, to erect marker's butts.

1882 Daily Tel. 12 June The home eleven had got 52 at an expense of two wickets.

c. In plural esp.: The charges, costs, items of outlay, incurred by a person in the execution of any commission or duty; ‘money out of pocket’; also, money paid to a person in reimbursement of these.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses

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outs1884

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. x. 44 Expensis shuln be ȝouen of the kyngies resoun..to bilde out the wallis of Jerusalem.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 154 The old Edward had euery month to his expensis a hundred marc.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xl. 5 The chefe captayne gaue him his expenses with a rewarde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 42 There's expences for thee.

1656 Manasseh ben Israel Vindiciæ Judæorum iii. 23 Of the tribute, expences should be forth-with given unto the Elders.

1894 N.E.D. at Expense Mod. You will allow me my expenses.

d. A cause or occasion of expense. Also transferred.

ΚΠ

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. iii. 51 Exertion is a physiological expense.

1894 N.E.D. at Expense Mod. His sons have been a great expense to him.

a. at (†on) the expense (†expenses) of a person, etc.: so that he defrays the cost; ‘at the charges of’.

ΚΠ

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 221 The grete Chane haþ euery day folk at His costages & expense.

1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 92 Appollo dide do make the arke..at the expensis of the king.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 70 He furnest..tua hundretht lycht horse on his auen expensis.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xvii. 47 Vs at whose expence tis done.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 220 Lawyers have more sober sense, Then to argue at their own expence.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. ii. 7 The Souldiers were all maintain'd at their own expences.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 67 Our piscator..declined dining at our expense.

1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §59 The Secretary of State may..cause any water-course to be widened at the expense of such board.

b. transferred. at the expense of a person (or thing): so that he (or it) suffers consequent loss, injury, or diminution.

ΚΠ

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. Pref. 6 And so, at his Expence, advance a little Trophy of Reputations to themselves.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. xiii. 344 Gratify our Envy at the Expence of our Neighbour's Reputation.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 189 The copper wires..were oxidized at the expence of the acid.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 711 The interest of the subordinates..is..pursued at the expense of the service.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. vii. 120 There was obedience at the expense of..feeling.

1879 M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 234 But the lovers of Hampden cannot forbear to extol him at Falkland's expense.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

expense-reforming n.

ΚΠ

1880 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 267 Any expense-reforming proposal meets with scant courtesy from the House.

expense-saving n.

C2.

expense account n. an account of expenses or expenditure; spec. an account of the expenses incurred by an employee in the course of his work and payable by his employer(s); also, the money so paid; frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > expense account

expense account1872

expense sheet1942

1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 284 The item of roads is a big one in the expense account.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt x. 141 It went down on my expense-account—gosh, if I'd been paying it instead of the firm, I'd 'a' tramped the streets all night.

1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero iii. 68 What about a quick drink and then some lunch?..It'll all go down on my expense account to the paper.

1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre ix. 75 When he directed a play he put down on the expense account the fee that a director of the second rank would have received.

1953 ‘S. Ransome’ Drag Dark (1954) xi. 119 They went off together…To lunch. Nice, expense-account place.

1959 Good Food Guide 87 Offering a good, soigné, ‘expense-account’ type menu.

1959 Good Food Guide 222 Designed in menu and price for business executives with expense accounts.

1959 Good Food Guide 387 The eaters were given precisely the same attentive service as the expense-account-wallahs.

1970 New Yorker 15 Aug. 66/2 Pills for expense-account indigestion.

expense-book n. Nautical (see quot. 1867).

ΚΠ

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 80 Expence Books.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Expense books, accounts of the expenditure of the warrant officer's stores, attested by the signing officers.

expense magazine n. a magazine in which a small portion of ammunition is kept for immediate use.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons

armoury1440

arsenal1572

magazinea1599

small armoury1713

armamentary1727

place of arms1768

ammunition depot1799

expense magazine1839

bell1858

ammunition dump1918

weapon-pita1944

silo1958

1839 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula xiii. v The explosion of an expense magazine.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 340 There are, also, branch or expense magazines in the outworks.

expense sheet n. = expense account n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > expense account

expense account1872

expense sheet1942

1942 G. Greene Brit. Dramatists 18 The scenes of Tamburlaine, unlimited by pasteboard sets and an expense-sheet, shifted boldly all over Asia.

1945 J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits v. 91 We'll pay you thirty-five pounds a week and give you a reasonable expense sheet.

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单词	expense
释义	expensen. Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛns/, /ɛkˈspɛns/, U.S. /ɪkˈspɛns/, /ɛkˈspɛns/ Forms: Middle English–1800s expence, Middle English expens, exspense, 1500s exspence, Middle English– expense. See also spence n.¹ Etymology: < Anglo-Norman expense (Old French espense ), < late Latin expēnsa , originally past participle feminine of expendĕre : see expend v. Compare Spanish expensas plural, also Italian spesa, which is the only popular representative of the word in Romanic, the French and Spanish forms being of learned origin. German speise ‘viand’ is an early adoption of the Latin word. †1. The action of expending; the state of being expended. Obsolete. Cf. expenditure n. 1. †a. Disbursement, spending, laying out (of money); an instance of this. Also occasionally wasteful expenditure, extravagance. person of expense: one who spends largely; so also, person of great, little expense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] spendingc1000 spening1297 dispensec1320 costc1325 dispendingc1340 dispensationa1387 expense1393 depance1450 waringc1480 spensea1538 bestowing?1542 expending1545 defrayment1547 dispensing1548 disbursing1564 disbursal1589 debursing1598 disbursementa1599 disburse1608 depursement1636 debursement1650 dispension1658 spenda1688 disbursage1721 finances1730 expenditure1769 outlay1798 dispenditure1857 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 153 That he mesure in his expence So kepe, that of indigence He may be sauf. c1430 Compl. Christ 169 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 179 My waast expensis y wole with-drawe. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 7^v Extraordinarie Expence must bee limited by the worth of the occasion. 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore v. sig. I4 This suddaine solemne Feast Was not ordayn'd to riott in expence. 1660 tr. St. John Chrysostom in F. Quarles Boanerges & Barnabas (ed. 5) 18 God is not honoured in the expence of that money which is bedewed with the teares of the Oppressed. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 95 A man of great expence. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 26. ⁋3 This exuberance of money displayed itself in wantonness of expence. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 141 All of them..dread a woman of expence. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. ix. 165 An obscure house of entertainment for persons of small expence. †b. The expending or using up (of material or immaterial resources); the state of being expended or used up; expenditure (of substance, strength, labour, time, etc.); loss (of blood, etc., of men in battle, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [noun] lore971 lurec1000 missOE tharningc1175 tinec1330 tinsela1340 leesing1362 loss1377 losinga1387 pert?a1400 tininga1400 amissionc1429 misture1563 expense1593 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] spendinga1430 use1440 consumptionc1522 abuse1539 spensec1547 abusinga1555 waste1569 expense1593 dispendium1648 expenditure1812 using-up1863 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xi. 81 With bootelesse expense of trauaile. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 519 I implore so much expence of thy royal sweete breath, as will vtter a brace of wordes. View more context for this quotation 1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. D3 My body..yet is faint With much expence of bloud. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §352 Fire and Flame are in continual expence. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. ii. 13 After the expence of about 14 men upon it, the designe was given over. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 293 They..move as other Meteors do, from a certain expence of their own substance the one way, which inforceth their motion another. 1749 J. Mason Ess. Power & Harmony Prosaic Numbers 70 The former require too great Expense of Breath to pronounce them. 1752 B. Franklin Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 266 The sun is not wasted by expence of light. 1797 Ld. Nelson 23 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) XII. p. cxliv No service that could have made an expense [of stores]. †c. Consumption (of produce, provisions). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [noun] usagea1500 use1586 expense1587 expending1745 discussion1814 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 156 The gentlemen commonlie make sufficient malt for their owne expenses onelie. 1594 Briefe Notes Benefits Obseruation Fish-daies (?1627) Proclamations, for the expence and obseruation of Fish-dayes. 1668 Markham's Way to Wealth ix. iii. i. 96 To gather [Pears] for expence, for transportation, or to sell. †d. Loss (of a possession). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B4^v Enter vpon..Her honor, which she calls her chastity And bring it into expence. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxx. sig. C3 Then can I..mone th' expence of many a vannisht sight. View more context for this quotation †2. Money expended (cf. expenditure n. 2); a sum expended. Obsolete.The apparent instances in recent use belong to 3 or 3c. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > instance or amount of expense1382 reparation1421 spending1617 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxi. 19 That he restore..the expensis into leches. c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1714) 32 If a Kyng be powre, he schal by necessite make his Expences..by Creaunce of borrowyng. 1680 W. Temple Ess. Advancem. Trade Ireland in Wks. (1731) I. 111 The Country loses the Expence of many of the richest Persons. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) vii. 103 Where a People thrive, there the income is greater than the expence. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xi. iv, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 337 You..do not supply them with the expences..for the offering their sacrifices. 1765 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 402 The difference betwixt these, is the expense which the farmer may lay out. in extended use.1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) ii. ii. 78 The Receipts from the Rivers fall short of the Expence in Vapour.1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 616 As to the Expence of the Sea-Water by Vapour, he concludes the Receipts of the Mediterranean to fall short of its expence. 3. a. Burden of expenditure; the pecuniary charge, cost, or sacrifice involved in any course of action, mode of living, etc., or requisite for the attainment of any object. Also transferred. [Originally a contextual use of 1.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses costningc1275 spense1297 costagesa1325 misesa1325 spenses1377 dispensec1380 expensesc1384 pensiona1387 costsc1390 resaillec1450 chargec1460 charges1514 outgiving1556 disbursement1607 going-outs1607 defalcation1622 outgoing1622 expense1632 outgoa1641 damage1755 outset1755 expenditure1791 outspend1859 ex1864 paid-out1883 outs1884 x's1894 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 27 Many companies of souldiers to be levied..without a penny of expence, of either his, or his complices. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 102. ¶11 I have several little plain Fans made for this Use, to avoid Expence. a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iii. 65 Those who can afford the expence, usually go to some part of the sea coast. 1799 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 277 The direct tax and stamp tax will add two millions clear of expence. 1837 ‘Nimrod’ Chace, Turf, & Road ii. 133 All got up..‘regardless of expense’. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 142 The scale of expense on which people live. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 135 A long list of legal expenses. figurative.1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 454/2 Who took upon herself the whole expenses of the flying colloquies exchanged with stragglers on the road. b. Phrases. †to lie at expense: (of a prisoner) to be a cause of outlay. at an expense of: at a cost or loss amounting to. at the expense of: at the cost of (a certain sum), by the sacrifice of (something); so at (a) great, little, etc. expense. to be at expense: to incur expenditure; so, to put (a person) to expense. to be at the expense, expenses (of): to defray the costs (of); also const. to with infinitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > loss or gain [phrase] > to the loss or diminution of at the waring ofc1480 at the expense of1710 a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 41 Now what expence soever he is at, he proclaimeth. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 6 He lies at expense. I move therefore, to call him in. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 262. ⁋3 The new Pair of Gloves and Coach-hire that he was at the Expence of in her Service. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 153 Some part of that mer one Mr. Fleetewood has been at the Expence to draine. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 418. ¶7 He is at no more Expence in a long Vista, than a short one. 1713 H. Martyn in Guardian 21 Mar. 1/2 Where, at the Expence of 4 or 5000l...he built a new one. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto (1798) iii. 62 Vowing to guard the princess at the expence of his life. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 371 We have been at such expence and trouble. 1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 160 All operations between the tropics are at an immense expense of human lives. 1859 Regulations for Musketry Instr. Army 52 At a considerable expense, to erect marker's butts. 1882 Daily Tel. 12 June The home eleven had got 52 at an expense of two wickets. c. In plural esp.: The charges, costs, items of outlay, incurred by a person in the execution of any commission or duty; ‘money out of pocket’; also, money paid to a person in reimbursement of these. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses costningc1275 spense1297 costagesa1325 misesa1325 spenses1377 dispensec1380 expensesc1384 pensiona1387 costsc1390 resaillec1450 chargec1460 charges1514 outgiving1556 disbursement1607 going-outs1607 defalcation1622 outgoing1622 expense1632 outgoa1641 damage1755 outset1755 expenditure1791 outspend1859 ex1864 paid-out1883 outs1884 x's1894 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. x. 44 Expensis shuln be ȝouen of the kyngies resoun..to bilde out the wallis of Jerusalem. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 154 The old Edward had euery month to his expensis a hundred marc. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xl. 5 The chefe captayne gaue him his expenses with a rewarde. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 42 There's expences for thee. 1656 Manasseh ben Israel Vindiciæ Judæorum iii. 23 Of the tribute, expences should be forth-with given unto the Elders. 1894 N.E.D. at Expense Mod. You will allow me my expenses. d. A cause or occasion of expense. Also transferred. ΚΠ 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. iii. 51 Exertion is a physiological expense. 1894 N.E.D. at Expense Mod. His sons have been a great expense to him. 4. a. at (†on) the expense (†expenses) of a person, etc.: so that he defrays the cost; ‘at the charges of’. ΚΠ c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 221 The grete Chane haþ euery day folk at His costages & expense. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 92 Appollo dide do make the arke..at the expensis of the king. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 70 He furnest..tua hundretht lycht horse on his auen expensis. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xvii. 47 Vs at whose expence tis done. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 220 Lawyers have more sober sense, Then to argue at their own expence. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. ii. 7 The Souldiers were all maintain'd at their own expences. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 67 Our piscator..declined dining at our expense. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §59 The Secretary of State may..cause any water-course to be widened at the expense of such board. b. transferred. at the expense of a person (or thing): so that he (or it) suffers consequent loss, injury, or diminution. ΚΠ 1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. Pref. 6 And so, at his Expence, advance a little Trophy of Reputations to themselves. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. xiii. 344 Gratify our Envy at the Expence of our Neighbour's Reputation. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 189 The copper wires..were oxidized at the expence of the acid. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 711 The interest of the subordinates..is..pursued at the expense of the service. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. vii. 120 There was obedience at the expense of..feeling. 1879 M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 234 But the lovers of Hampden cannot forbear to extol him at Falkland's expense. Compounds C1. General attributive. expense-reforming n. ΚΠ 1880 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 267 Any expense-reforming proposal meets with scant courtesy from the House. expense-saving n. C2. expense account n. an account of expenses or expenditure; spec. an account of the expenses incurred by an employee in the course of his work and payable by his employer(s); also, the money so paid; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > expense account expense account1872 expense sheet1942 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 284 The item of roads is a big one in the expense account. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt x. 141 It went down on my expense-account—gosh, if I'd been paying it instead of the firm, I'd 'a' tramped the streets all night. 1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero iii. 68 What about a quick drink and then some lunch?..It'll all go down on my expense account to the paper. 1937 W. S. Maugham Theatre ix. 75 When he directed a play he put down on the expense account the fee that a director of the second rank would have received. 1953 ‘S. Ransome’ Drag Dark (1954) xi. 119 They went off together…To lunch. Nice, expense-account place. 1959 Good Food Guide 87 Offering a good, soigné, ‘expense-account’ type menu. 1959 Good Food Guide 222 Designed in menu and price for business executives with expense accounts. 1959 Good Food Guide 387 The eaters were given precisely the same attentive service as the expense-account-wallahs. 1970 New Yorker 15 Aug. 66/2 Pills for expense-account indigestion. expense-book n. Nautical (see quot. 1867). ΚΠ 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 80 Expence Books. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Expense books, accounts of the expenditure of the warrant officer's stores, attested by the signing officers. expense magazine n. a magazine in which a small portion of ammunition is kept for immediate use. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons armoury1440 arsenal1572 magazinea1599 small armoury1713 armamentary1727 place of arms1768 ammunition depot1799 expense magazine1839 bell1858 ammunition dump1918 weapon-pita1944 silo1958 1839 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula xiii. v The explosion of an expense magazine. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 340 There are, also, branch or expense magazines in the outworks. expense sheet n. = expense account n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > expense account expense account1872 expense sheet1942 1942 G. Greene Brit. Dramatists 18 The scenes of Tamburlaine, unlimited by pasteboard sets and an expense-sheet, shifted boldly all over Asia. 1945 J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits v. 91 We'll pay you thirty-five pounds a week and give you a reasonable expense sheet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). expensev. Brit. /ᵻkˈspɛns/, /ɛkˈspɛns/, U.S. /ɪkˈspɛns/, /ɛkˈspɛns/ Etymology: < expense n. Accounting (originally U.S.). transitive. a. To charge (a company or business) with expenses incurred in the execution of a commission. ΚΠ 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. Expense,..to charge or debit with an item of incurred expense to be collected from the proper party and accounted for by the chargee. 1928 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Expense this office with charges. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §551/8 Expense, to charge for expenses. b. To offset (an amount expended on equipment, operational costs, etc.) as an expense against taxable income over a given period. ΚΠ 1957 Clark & Gottfried University Dict. Business & Finance (1967) 142/2 Depreciation charges on the equipment over its life are usually expensed to successive accounting periods. 1965 Economist 23 Jan. 352/1 If the royalty is ‘expensed’, i.e. deducted from the profit before assessment to tax then the tax payable becomes 50% of [etc.]. 1970 R. W. Wallis Accounting ii. 25 Assets held prior to their being expensed may be subtracted from assets held after revenue has been earned in order to compute income. 1987 N.Y. Times 7 Oct. d23/1 An approximately $50,000 after-tax loss on discontinued operations which was expensed in the fourth quarter of fiscal 1987, contributed to its earnings decline. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1382v.1909
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