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.
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151. Slopeside lodgings cost more, but often you are spared the expense of renting a car.
152. Or we could leave it up to the electricity generators to reduce the impact, at the expense of higher bills.
153. In truth no expense will be spared to royally entertain the guests on board the Champagne Orient Express.
154. And he'd have bought her a beauty, no expense spared.
155. The statue was acquired at great expense by the City Corporation.
156. Before you go to the expense of a professional survey, though, it is worth making a proper assessment yourself.
157. They are a useful alternative for small companies whose overseas operations are limited, not warranting the expense of direct involvement.
158. We spared no expense in preparing ourselves for a long strike and the decertification of the unions.
159. Leapor's willingness to make jokes at her own expense is one of the admirable qualities of her work.
160. The two companies said their marriage will come at the expense of 2, 000 jobs.
161. Whenever they can avoid the expense and trouble of employing a person by investing in another robot they do so.
162. These more favoured subcontractors, however, gain a greater degree of continuity at the expense of wider variations in profits. Sentencedict.com
163. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
164. They will hit the top earner, the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
165. I was educated at his expense and until I repay his investment, it is illegal to employ me directly.
166. The world has been secularizing at the expense of organized religion. The increase of secular people, including atheists, agnostics and freethinkers, represents a great challenge to the God-based religion. Dr T.P.Chia
167. The federal government obligingly constructed logging roads into the wildernesses at public expense to accommodate the trucks and men and machinery.
168. A modern capitalist state can not openly use coercive powers to help one class accumulate capital at the expense of others.
169. Yet, the practitioner manages to deal with the problem albeit at considerable expense.
170. The language and procedures for dealing with that alienation encompass conflict and confrontation at the expense of planned purposeful strategies.
171. Affirmation depends on negation: white is valued at the expense of black; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing.
172. They expect to expand at the expense not of each other but of traditional restaurants.
173. Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion.
174. In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress.
175. Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge.
176. Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
177. In network economics the major expense of new product development stems from designing the manufacturing process and not designing the product.
178. And this, the archdiocese believes, is sometimes done at the expense of Catholic doctrine.
179. This is worth unravelling, even at the expense of a brief excursion into the mathematical realm of complex numbers.
180. The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him, but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person.
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