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# expense

«expense» in Mova's school dictionary: **the amount of money something costs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an expense, expenses; expense, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Expense is the amount of money something costs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m1)

2) An expense is something you have to pay for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m2)

3) Expenses are money a worker spends for the job and is paid back for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m3)

4) At someone's expense means they paid for it, or that a joke made them look silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Money lessons and adult life (household expenses, travel expenses), maths (income minus expenses), stories and jokes (laughing at someone's expense).

### examples

- The new roof was a huge expense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x1)
- Food is the family's biggest expense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x2)
- Mum's work pays her travel expenses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x3)
- They laughed at my expense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x4)
- The trip was paid for at the school's expense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x5)
- Spare no expense for the party! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x6)
- Keep a list of your weekly expenses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x7)
- I have learned this at my own expense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x8)

### note

Adjective: expensive. Do not confuse with «expanse» (a wide area). In maths: money left = income − expenses.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expense» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.