expense

1. 1.

   reduce the estimated value of something

   “For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer”

   Synonymswrite offwrite down

   Broaderdepreciate

Other forms of expense

plural

expenses·

past tense

expensed·

present participle

expensing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about expense

What does expense mean?

expense means "amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expense?

expense has 2 syllables: ex-pense. The stress falls on "pense". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛns/.

What is another word for expense?

Close synonyms include disbursal, disbursement, write off, write down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expense a common word?

expense is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with expense?

2 words rhyme with expense. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.