noun
an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑travel and entertainment account
• Hypernyms: ↑account, ↑accounting, ↑account statement
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noun, pl ⋯ accounts [count]
: an arrangement that allows an employee (such as someone who is traveling for business) to pay for things using the company's money instead of the employee's money
He charged dinner to his expense account.
She put the tickets on her expense account.
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an arrangement by which money spent by sb while they are at work is later paid back to them by their employer; a record of money spent in this way
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Put the cost of the train fare on your expense account.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.