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
Beginning in 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act permanently increases the credit rate for some families by up to 15 percentage points, taking it as high as 50% of expenses.
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David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Her administration would scrap plans to set aside $14 million for hurricane expenses not covered by FEMA, for instance, and use that money to cover the $14 million helicopter budget that would have been paid by the Fire Rescue tax.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The single largest expense reported by the group that year is more than $6 million paid to Siri & Glimstad, the law firm representing Guzman’s case.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Autonomy has already come at the expense of new EVs.
—Patrick George, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
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David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Her administration would scrap plans to set aside $14 million for hurricane expenses not covered by FEMA, for instance, and use that money to cover the $14 million helicopter budget that would have been paid by the Fire Rescue tax.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
The single largest expense reported by the group that year is more than $6 million paid to Siri & Glimstad, the law firm representing Guzman’s case.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Autonomy has already come at the expense of new EVs.
—Patrick George, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expense
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Year-round book sales ended in 2025 due to stocking costs.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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The jury saw extensive emails between Donna and Wendi that showed how Donna pushed Wendi to pursue relocation to South Florida at any cost, including offering her ex-husband $1 million and taunting him with the possibility of converting their kids from Judaism to Catholicism.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
6 Sep. 2025
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In the five seasons from 2010-11 and 2014-15, spending by the ‘Big Six’ clubs represented between 60 and 66 per cent of the total transfer expenditure in the Premier League.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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For those patients initiated on the GLP-1s, healthcare expenditures rose, with inpatient costs accounting for the largest share.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Expense.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expense. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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