📖 expense

noun1 senses

1. a detriment or sacrifice“at the expense of”
2. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
3. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer“he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting”

See also: disbursaldisbursement

verb2 sense

1. reduce the estimated value of something“For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer”

See also: write downwrite off

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