An expense account is an arrangement between an employer and an employee which allows the employee to spend the company's money on things relating to their job, for example travelling or looking after clients.
[business]
He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
...expense account lunches.
expense account in British English
noun
1.
an arrangement by which expenses incurred in the course of a person's work are refunded by the employer or deducted from his or her income for tax purposes
2.
a record of such expenses
3. (modifier) informal
paid for by an employer or by money allowable against tax
an expense-account lunch
expense account in American English
US
1.
an arrangement whereby business-related expenses of an employee are paid for by theemployer
2.
a record of such expenses
expense account in Accounting1
(ɪkspɛns əkaʊnt)
Word forms: (regular plural) expense accounts
noun
(Accounting: Commerce)
An expense account is an arrangement that an employee has with an employer that allows the employeeto spend money on things relating to their job, such as traveling or entertaining clients.
He put the restaurant bill on his expense account.
When you're traveling for business and you're on an expense account, you are more likely to do things you wouldn't normally do at home.
An expense account is an arrangement between an employer and an employee that allows the employee tospend the company's money on things relating to their job, such as traveling or entertainingclients.
account, account
expense account in Accounting2
(ɪkspɛns əkaʊnt)
Word forms: (regular plural) expense accounts
noun
(Accounting: Financial statements, Income statement)
An expense account is an account showing the expenses of a company over a period of time.
Upon pre-payment of the expense, a journal entry is prepared to debit the expense account and credit cash.
When the company pays for merchandise, they debit their cash account and credit theirexpense account.
An expense account is an account showing the expenses of a company over a period of time.
account, account
Examples of 'expense account' in a sentence
expense account
I paid Lemmer and Hamilton from an expense account Drago opened for me here in Amsterdam.
Gave you a great salary and an expense account twice as big as my own.
Dobbs, Michael THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS (2002)
You can choose your car, generous expense account, health plan, and a bonus system on top.
Stuart Harrison BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
Otherwise you're what, twenty-seven hundred miles from the home office working out of your own pad with a generous expense account.
Elmore Leonard TOUCH (2002)
In other languages
expense account
British English: expense account NOUN
An expense account is an arrangement which allows an employee to spend the company's money on things relating to their job, for example travelling or looking after clients.
He put her motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
American English: expense account
Brazilian Portuguese: relatório de despesas
Chinese: > 费用账户由公司报销的
European Spanish: cuenta de gastos de representación
French: note de frais
German: Spesenkonto
Italian: nota spese
Japanese: 所要経費
Korean: 소요 경비 계정
European Portuguese: relatório de despesas
Latin American Spanish: cuenta de gastos de representación