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Webster 1913 Edition

Expense

Ex-pense′

,
Noun.
[L.
expensa
(sc.
pecunia
), or
expensum
, fr.
expensus
, p. p. of
expendere
. See
Expend
.]
1.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature’s riches from
expense
.
Shakespeare
2.
That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; – sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls;
as, the
expenses
of war; an
expense
of time
.
Courting popularity at his party's
expense
.
Brougham.
3.
Loss.
[Obs.]
Shak.
And moan the
expense
of many a vanished sight.
Spenser.
Expense magazine
(Mil.)
,
a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.
H. L. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition

Expense

EXPENSE

,
Noun.
expens'. [L. expensum.] A laying out or expending; the disbursing of money, or the employment and consumption, as of time or labor. Great enterprises are accomplished only by a great expense of money, time and labor.
1.
Money expended; cost; charge; that which is disbursed in payment or in charity. A prudent man limits his expenses by his income. The expenses of war are rarely or never reimbursed by the acquisition either of goods or territory.
2.
That which is used, employed, laid out or consumed; as the expense of time or labor.

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