An expense is a cost, but you can also use this word to mean the figurative cost of something. If you find it embarrassing to dress up as Santa, you might say that you do it to amuse your nephews, at the expense of your pride.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Noun
a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of"
Noun
amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
Noun
money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
n.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
n.
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.
n.
Loss.
Expense
Husband nature's riches from expense.2.
Courting popularity at his party's expense.3.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Usage Examples
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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 further expense to anybody.
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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Other Usage ExamplesFame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.
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