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 Non-interest expenses came in below expectations, which is encouraging, but the $112 million beat versus the FactSet consensus didn't make up for all of the top-line softness. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The complaint accuses Love Renaissance of improperly diverting money from Walker’s touring, recording, marketing, and merchandising budgets, while charging excessive company expenses to those accounts in bad faith. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 Multiplying minutes saved by a salary rate does not establish a reduction in payroll expenses. — Hani Assi, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The payments are adjusted every year based on inflation, but many older Americans and their advocates have long said that the annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) formula doesn’t match the actual increase in expenses. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 In total, expenses for the apartment amounted to about $7,200 a month. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Other equipment expenses that comprise the body, motors, and supporting electronics are more and less fixed at around four hundred dollars. — Muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026 In the statement, Skydance said savings would come primarily from combining technology and other operations, such as negotiating deals with suppliers and reducing overlapping marketing expenses as well as consolidating real estate. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 In 2025, the UC spent two-thirds of its total annual expenses, which amounted to nearly $60 billion, on employee salaries and benefits. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expenses
Noun
  • There’s also an additional $5,768 in monthly real estate taxes, bringing the total baseline carrying costs to just under $10,000 a month.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The shows no longer deliver the ratings necessary to attract enough ad revenue to cover their costs on broadcast networks, which include rights fees and production costs.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Ellison has taken an opposing view from his predecessors who confronted crumbling industry economics by cutting expenditures to boost their corporate bottom lines.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The arrival of Netflix in many regions, including South Korea and areas of Africa, has been a watershed moment that helped turbocharge local production infrastructure, jobs and expenditures.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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“Expenses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expenses. Accessed 15 Oct. 2026.

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