Antonym: income. Similar words: at the expense of, expert, expect, expected, expertise, experiment, experience, experienced. Meaning: [ɪk'spens] 
n. 1. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) 2. a detriment or sacrifice 3. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer.
n. 1. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) 2. a detriment or sacrifice 3. money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer. 
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271. Unique spectacle means a lot at this festival, but is hardly ever at the expense of artistic quality.
272. Within a large establishment such as a college it is unlikely that they will avoid some name-calling or jokes at their expense.
273. The music of the words is there to be used - but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content.
274. Literacy and education tend therefore to reduce linguistic diversity and to enhance major languages at the expense of minor ones.
275. The expense would all go for nothing now because the Emperor had just rewritten the social calendar.
276. The client may win in court, but at the expense of destroying the business relationship, he says.
276. Wish you can benefit from sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
277. Our own car broke down, so we had the additional expense of renting a car.
278. The water he had obtained at such expense and grief was being wasted.
279. A solution custom-built, as considerable expense, promptly out-dated by technology.
280. In the United States it even rates as an expense that can be charged against tax.
281. To help out couples with the expense of setting up home Gilmore's have a special discount scheme.
282. Were the qualities found in a producer so rare that they could be purchased only at great expense?
283. The lack of expense involved complies fully with their famous refusal to produce promo videos.
284. For Walpole, population 3, 000, complying with the legislation will be the single biggest capital expense of the year.
285. The company stands to save at least $ 13 million a year in interest expense by replacing higher-cost debt.
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