expense

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n. 费用, 代价, 开支, 损失 [经] 费用, 开支, 将支出转为费用

发音

US /ɪkˈspɛns/

词形变化

expenses 复数 expenses expensed expenses 三单 expensing expensing 现在分词 expensed 过去式 expensed 过去分词

别名

expence

教材释义与例句

名词

损失，代价；消费；开支

Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something

动词

向…收取费用

动词

被花掉

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.

    费用

    花费

    可数 不可数

    She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.

    Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run.

    We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company.

  2. 2.

    The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.

    可数 不可数

    Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldn't beat him.

  3. 3.

    Loss.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

    及物

    It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

disbursal disbursement

上位词 7

hurt cost spending expenditure detriment outlay outgo

下位词 5

overhead incidental incidental expense operating cost operating expense
动词

同义词 2

write-off write down

上位词 1

depreciate

相关短语

expense account adj. 费用账户的; 可报销的; 可减免税款的 at the expense of 归...付费, 在损害...的情况下 [法] 归...付费 expense accounts operating expense n. 营运成本 [网络] 营业费用；事业费；经营费用 incidental expense 偶然费用 capital expense [经] 集资费用 spare no expense 不惜工本 spares no expense sparing no expense spared no expense

词源

From Middle English expense, from Anglo-Norman expense and Old French espense, from Late Latin expēnsa, from Latin expendō. See expend. Doublet of speso.

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