1 an amount of money needed or used to do or buy something; cost: --
2 an amount of money that a person or business spends in order to do something: --
unnecessary/additional/extra expense Money can be moved into the account without the unnecessary expense of being converted into sterling.
legal/medical/administrative expenses
bear/incur an expense In your tax return you can include tax-deductible expenses incurred as a result of employment.
cover/meet expenses He said the business needed to borrow to meet future expenses.
cut down on/reduce/cut expense We need to cut down on our expenses.
a big/major expense Waste disposal is a major expense for us.
3 the large amount of money that something costs: --
Having gone to the expense of hiring an exhibition stand, you need to make the most of the selling opportunity.
He just had his office remodelled at great expense.
Buying a bigger car has proved to be well worth the expense.
4 money that you spend when you are doing your job, that an employer or other organization pays back to you: --
I need to get my expenses approved.
Committee members are paid £160 plus expenses to attend the fortnightly meetings.
Details of how to claim expenses can be found on the website.
travel/relocation/subsistence expenses
pay/cover/reimburse sb's expenses She was invited to speak at the conference, with an offer to cover all her expenses.
5 if something is all expenses paid, you do not have to pay for anything yourself: --
an all-expenses-paid trip to New York
She's going to a conference in Tokyo, all expenses paid.
In addition, we examine whether the components of overall risk-adjusted performance (risk, returns, and expenses) are related.
Workers cannot access their funds for house purchase, education, or medical expenses, as in some other countries.
The argument is that active asset management is required to outperform the market, which therefore leads to higher investment management expenses.
Participants were offered an afternoon or an evening focus group and were reimbursed for outof-pocket expenses.
Participants received compensation for travel expenses (maximum £10) as an incentive to attend.
They are likely to include at least all expenses, which are not possible to get higher tax deductions through the personal income tax system.
However, compared to their high reliance on informal care, they are more independent from their families in terms of financing their living expenses.
As new medical technologies sent expenses on an upward spiral, small provincial hospitals, largely funded by small private bequests, could not keep up.
