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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181. Their aim: to take some of the pain and the expense out of the annual chore of filing a tax return.
182. I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. Edward Gibbon
183. Thus the legal aid scheme permits those eligible to take the risk of litigation at the possible expense of the Fund.
184. It took nearly 18 years, thousands of hours and great expense for authorities to arrest a suspect in the Unabomber case.
185. Some unexpected expense always seems to crop up when you least want it to and throws your careful calculations out of the window.
186. Even new-media producers concede there is considerable expense and technical expertise needed to surf the Internet.
187. The fear is that if one club does manage to forge ahead, it will be at the expense of the other.
188. The training plan Considerable effort and expense were employed in providing information and training to help boards get established.
189. Such values work at the expense of a positive evaluation of females.
190. All the expense is incurred during development of a new construction program, rather than in the manufacturing process itself.
191. Working on a tight budget, we opted for more on-board memory at the expense of a large capacity harddisk.
192. The six new radiators in Mrs Garazhenko's flat were flown from Moscow at considerable expense.
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193. Can anyone think of a way of proposing amendments before the postal ballot without the wasted expense of additional mailings?
194. The polytechnic was busily being renamed, and at considerable expense, when the new name was suddenly dropped.
195. Much of that expense is caused by the enforcement procedures.
196. No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings.
197. A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable.
198. I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him.
199. They spared no expense when the New York Public Library was built at the turn of the century.
200. Decrepit old Shepherd Hall is being renovated at staggering expense.
201. Similarly, countries may make use of automation to improve their international competitiveness, sometimes at the expense of other countries.
202. Too much of it, however, is thoughtlessly neglected or replaced, often at great expense.
203. Things have also changed for the employee who receives an expense account.
204. The public mood seemed to be that more organizations mean more bureaucracy, complexity and expense.
205. Investment in the military by a state enhances its security only at the expense of its neighbours.
206. Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had spared no expense to feed the multitude.
207. This family carries out its child rearing and educating functions inevitably at the expense of career opportunities for women.
208. They ignore the minor expense of health care for pregnant women, but pay the massive expenses of premature babies.
209. So choose electric storage heating and save time, bother, and expense.
210. This total is then divided by interest expense to obtain the times interest earned ratio.
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