expense
• noun 1 the cost incurred in or required for something. 2 (expenses) specific costs incurred in the performance of a job or task. 3 something on which money must be spent. — PHRASES at the expense of 1 paid for by. 2 to the detriment of. — ORIGIN Old French, from Latin expendere ‘weigh or pay out’.
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