1. Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
   "The company carefully tracked all business expenses for tax purposes";
   - disbursal, disbursement
    
2. Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
   "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting"
    
3. A detriment or sacrifice
   "at the expense of"

1. Reduce the estimated value of something
   "The company expensed the old equipment";
   - write off, write down

Derived forms: expensed, expenses, expensing

Type of: cost, depreciate, detriment, expenditure, hurt, outgo [archaic], outlay, spend, spending

Encyclopedia: Expense