noun
1. amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
• Syn: ↑expense, ↑disbursement
• Derivationally related forms: ↑disburse (for: ↑disbursement)
• Hypernyms: ↑cost
• Hyponyms:
↑business expense, ↑trade expense, ↑interest expense, ↑lobbying expense, ↑medical expense, ↑non-cash expense, ↑moving expense, ↑operating expense, ↑operating cost, ↑overhead, ↑budget items, ↑personal expense
2. the act of spending or disbursing money
• Syn: ↑spending, ↑disbursement, ↑outlay
• Hypernyms: ↑payment, ↑defrayal, ↑defrayment
• Hyponyms: ↑expending, ↑expenditure, ↑deficit spending, ↑compensatory spending, ↑pump priming
Useful english dictionary. 2012.