as in cost
a payment made in the course of achieving a result
they spared no expense in building the house of their dreams
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Recent Examples of expense
The friction comes from services that rely on property taxes and sales taxes — expenses that account for roughly 25 cents of every dollar Miami-Dade spends each year.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Organizers have also set aside $5 million to put towards player expenses, including a $1,000 travel stipend for each player and two hotel rooms at the official player hotel (or $600 per day for staying at alternative accommodation).
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
The station’s expenses, meanwhile, ranged over $503,000 that year.
—Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
First, news broke that the Office of Management and Budget had barred the NIH from spending its funds on anything but staff salaries and expenses—yet another blow to grant-making that effectively guaranteed that the agency’s already sluggish spending would completely stagnate.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Organizers have also set aside $5 million to put towards player expenses, including a $1,000 travel stipend for each player and two hotel rooms at the official player hotel (or $600 per day for staying at alternative accommodation).
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
The station’s expenses, meanwhile, ranged over $503,000 that year.
—Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
First, news broke that the Office of Management and Budget had barred the NIH from spending its funds on anything but staff salaries and expenses—yet another blow to grant-making that effectively guaranteed that the agency’s already sluggish spending would completely stagnate.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expense
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The result, which the research firm Brattle published this week, was 535 megawatts, equal to adding a big hydro dam or a half-sized nuclear reactor at a fraction of the cost.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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To address this, take a top-down approach by estimating the cloud budget per cost center, identifying all the accounts tied to a cost center and distributing the total cost center budget across each account while leaving aside a small buffer.—
Rakshana Balakrishnan,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Under previous administrations, the FEMA administrator was able to personally sign off on large expenditures, according to Deanne Criswell, who led the agency under the Biden administration.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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Senate Bill 213 creates more transparency by requiring state agencies to report on advertising expenditures annually, beginning Jan. 1. Carbon sequestration in the Mahomet Aquifer is banned beginning Jan. 1, and with Senate Bill 1723, the Mahomet Aquifer Advisory Study Commission is created.—
Greg Bishop,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Expense.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expense. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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