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# expense

noun (an expense, expenses; expense, uncountable)

«expense» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Expense is the amount of money something costs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m1)
2. An expense is something you have to pay for. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m2)
3. Expenses are money a worker spends for the job and is paid back for. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m3)
4. At someone's expense means they paid for it, or that a joke made them look silly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#m4)

### In the lessons

Money lessons and adult life (household expenses, travel expenses), maths (income minus expenses), stories and jokes (laughing at someone's expense).

### Examples

- The new roof was a huge expense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x1)
- Food is the family's biggest expense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x2)
- Mum's work pays her travel expenses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x3)
- They laughed at my expense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x4)
- The trip was paid for at the school's expense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x5)
- Spare no expense for the party! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x6)
- Keep a list of your weekly expenses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x7)
- I have learned this at my own expense. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/#x8)

### Note

Adjective: expensive. Do not confuse with «expanse» (a wide area). In maths: money left = income − expenses.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means the cost of building the Temple, which the Persian king ordered paid from the royal treasury.

**Interpretation.** The tradition notes that King Cyrus's decree allowed the second Temple to be rebuilt with royal funds.

### Examples

- with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house; (Writings EZR.6.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expense/#x1)

### Note

Adjective: expensive. Do not confuse with «expanse» (a wide area). In maths: money left = income − expenses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «expense» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expense/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expense» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/expense.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «expense» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/expense/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«expense» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/expense.html) on Mova free.