Synonyms of expenses

expenses

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• costs
• expenditures
• outlays
• disbursements
• prices
• charges
• rates
• outgoes
• overheads
• outflows
• tariffs
• tolls
• tabs
• spending moneys
• pocket moneys

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of expenses

The district's diesel expenses have exceeded tens of thousands of dollars in extra costs, Deans said, also noting that several of the district's vehicles also run on gasoline. — Chilekasi Adele, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

Please keep in mind that this will be the only gofundme set up going directly to his expenses. — Entertainment Weekly, 25 Aug. 2026

Khashoggi wanted to buy the Pierre—the nearly 200-room hotel, and all of the apartments, too—for $2 billion in cash, less expenses. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026

Back-to-school season has a habit of making everyday expenses pile up quickly. — New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026

But as students settle into classes, unexpected housing costs, higher-than-anticipated expenses or changes in financial circumstances can create a need for additional funding. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 25 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