What is the meaning of Expense?

(n.) 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.
(n.) Loss.
(n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

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