personal expense

1. 1.

   the cost of personal or family living

   “some personal expenses are tax deductible”

   Broaderexpense

Questions about personal expense

What does personal expense mean?

personal expense means "the cost of personal or family living".

Is personal expense a common word?

personal expense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.