Ex·pense n.
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.]
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. --Spenser.
Expense magazine Mil., a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.
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