Expense

//ɪkˈspɛns//

Synonyms for "expense" (84 found)

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Closest matches (17)

cost amount bereavement budget budget items burden of expenditure carrying charge charge charges cost of living cost-of-living allowance cost-of-living index costs damage

Noun(3 words)

disbursement charge cost

Strong matches (25)

Related words (42)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

8 entries

cost depreciate detriment expenditure hurt outgo outlay spending

Antonyms

2 entries

cheap income

Synonyms

2 entries

cost write off

Related terms

2 entries

expend expensive

derived

9 entries

all-expense at the expense of capital expense expensable expense account incidental expense operating expense spare no expense unexpensed

distinct from

1 entries

cheap

is a

3 entries

cost detriment outgo

related to

46 entries

account accounting accounting term accounts budget business business cost charge consumption cost costs debit disburse elimination ex ex spend

Showing 16 of 46 words.

Translations

89 translations across 46 languages.

Ancient Greek

2 entries

δαπάνη noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
δαπάνη noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Arabic

3 entries

صَرْف noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
مَصَارِيف noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
مَصْرُوف noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

xərc noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Belarusian

2 entries

выда́так noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
расхо́д noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Bulgarian

4 entries

изразхо́дване noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
ра́зход noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
ра́зход noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
разно́ски noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Catalan

1 entries

despesa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

花费 noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
費用 /费用 noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Czech

4 entries

náklad noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
vydání noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
výdaj noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
výdej noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Dutch

1 entries

uitgave noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Esperanto

1 entries

elspezo noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Finnish

4 entries

kulu noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
kulu noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
kulu noun (loss)
kustannus noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

French

1 entries

dépense noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Friulian

1 entries

spese noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

German

3 entries

Aufwand noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
Ausgabe noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
Verlust noun (loss)

Hindi

4 entries

उपभुक्त noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
ख़र्च noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
घाटा noun (loss)
प्रयुक्त noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Hungarian

1 entries

költség noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Icelandic

1 entries

útgjöld noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Ingrian

4 entries

kulu noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
kulu noun (loss)
mänö noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
mänö noun (loss)

Irish

1 entries

costas noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Italian

2 entries

perdita noun (loss)
spesa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Japanese

2 entries

支出 noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
費用 noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Kaitag

1 entries

харж noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Kazakh

1 entries

қаржы noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Korean

1 entries

비용 noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

каржы noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Ladin

1 entries

speisa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Latin

3 entries

impendium noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
impensa noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
sūmptus noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Mongolian

1 entries

зардал noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Oromo

1 entries

baasii noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

اخراج noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
خرج noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Kost noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
Priess noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Polish

3 entries

ekspens noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
nakład noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
wydatek noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Portuguese

1 entries

despesa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Romanian

2 entries

cheltuială noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
seamă noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Russian

2 entries

расхо́д noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
расхо́д noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Sicilian

1 entries

spisa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Slovak

2 entries

náklad noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
výdavok noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Spanish

4 entries

dispendio noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
expendio noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
expensas noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
gasto noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Swedish

3 entries

bekostnad noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)
förlust noun (loss)
utgift noun (that which is expended, laid out, or consumed)

Tagalog

1 entries

bayarin noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Tamil

1 entries

செலவு noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Tocharian B

1 entries

wyai noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Turkish

1 entries

masraf noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Ukrainian

2 entries

вида́ток noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)
розхі́д noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Venetan

1 entries

spexa noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Volapük

1 entries

fräd noun (a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure)

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I paid the bill out of my expense account.

Source: tatoeba (21109)

As regards the expense involved, it is of no concern to me.

Source: tatoeba (42884)

The expense is chargeable on him.

Source: tatoeba (44368)

The ship was built at considerable expense.

Source: tatoeba (45704)

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