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1Expense management — The system and/or systems deployed by a business to process, pay, and audit employee initiated expenses. These costs include, but are not limited to, expenses incurred for travel and entertainment. Expense management includes the policies and… …
2expense — ex‧pense [ɪkˈspens] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] ACCOUNTING an amount of money that a business or organization has to spend on something: • Most advertisers look upon advertising as an expense and not an investment, which is a mistake. • The… …
3expense account — expense accounts N COUNT An expense account is an arrangement between an employer and an employee which allows the employee to spend the company s money on things relating to their job, for example travelling or looking after clients. He put… …
4expense — noun 1 cost/money spent on sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, huge, significant, vast ▪ added, additional, extra …
5expense — [[t]ɪkspe̱ns[/t]] ♦♦♦ expenses 1) N VAR Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something. He s bought a specially big TV at vast expense so that everyone can see properly... To avoid extra expense… …
6expense — ex|pense [ ık spens ] noun *** 1. ) count an amount of money you spend in order to buy or do something: Rent is our biggest expense. You can claim part of your telephone bill as a business expense. traveling/medical/legal expenses a factory s… …
7expense — I UK [ɪkˈspens] / US noun Word forms expense : singular expense plural expenses *** 1) [countable] UK [ɪkˈspens] / US an amount of money that you spend in order to buy or do something Rent is our biggest expense. You can claim part of your… …
8expense — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French or Late Latin; Anglo French, from Late Latin expensa, from Latin, feminine of expensus, past participle of expendere Date: 14th century 1. archaic the act or an instance of expending ;… …
9expense — 01. Whenever we go skiing, we try to go in a group, so we can share [expenses] such as transportation, accommodation and food. 02. Some couples count all their [expenses] to make sure that each person pays his portion. 03. Our household… …
10expense account — noun an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑travel and entertainment account • Hypernyms: ↑account, ↑accounting, ↑account statement * * * noun, pl ⋯ accounts [count] …
