expenses

plural of expense
as in costs
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 expenses Spradling said large events can provide a significant boost, but staffing pressures, parking shortages and rising operating expenses remain ongoing challenges. Kenny Choi, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 It's estimated that class members who submit a valid claim could receive up to $22, although the final amount will be impacted by the number of valid claims, payments to lead class members, legal fees, settlement administration and other expenses. Brian Sloan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026 This shift reveals that frontier AI remains costly to build and serve, forcing companies without cloud platforms to reflect true compute expenses in their pricing. Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 State energy officials say modestly higher upfront tire costs — about $26 more per set — will be outweighed by fuel savings, cutting drivers’ expenses and emissions equivalent to 400,000 cars annually. Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 When tax revenues grow slower than expenses, public-sector health plans are forced to turn the scalpel toward their own workforce. Bob Herman, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026 These dividends result from income in excess of losses and expenses. Greta Cross, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026 If approved later this month, those expenses would reflect a roughly 8% overall increase from what officials approved for the 2026 budget year. Sofi Zeman august 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Aug. 2026 In 2017, the year Helm took over, the studio took in $120,000 in gross profit, with $134,000 in additional expenses, resulting in losses of about $14,000. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • Oil prices and government borrowing costs climbed higher on Tuesday as traders’ hopes of a swift resolution to the US-Iran conflict fade.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For any brand looking to steady its input costs and protect its production lines from geopolitical shocks, the case is straightforward.
    Rob Kaplan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Before 2021, foreign aid financed roughly three-quarters of public expenditures.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Provisions in last year’s tax bill are helping boost capital expenditures, and business investment has accelerated this year.
    Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Expenses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expenses. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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