Ex*pense" (?), n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of
expendere. See Expend.]
1. A spending or
consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from
expense.
Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or
consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom
the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
Courting popularity at his party's
expense.
Brougham. 3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.
And moan the
expense of many a vanished sight.
Spenser. Expense magazine
(Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.
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