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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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The company says that third-quarter traffic was up 0.7% despite recording a 62% increase in fuel expense, which it is trying to recover through higher prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Case said the settlement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing, but rather a means to “avoid the burden, expense, and uncertainty of continued litigation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

It is important that teenage girls, especially, get enough iron and calcium, so Ludlam-Raine says not to become overly focused on protein at the expense of other nutrients.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Her director, who seems preoccupied with grass and trees and skies at the expense of people, has made a film almost completely bereft of wit, which is like a Star Wars movie without laser guns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Jet-fuel expenses have surged by tens of billions of dollars, but carriers say households are absorbing the increase in fares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

On the positive side, GM raised its forecast for automotive free cash flow, or the money it has left over from its vehicle business after expenses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

As one might expect, it found that lower-income households struggle to fund their retirement because their resources are consumed by child-care expenses, staples such as food and gas and housing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The automaker said commodity and logistics expenses outweighed higher third-quarter profit and revenue, and approved a $20 billion multiyear buyback plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

When the Soviet Union had agreed to invite Bobby to Moscow, and generously pay all expenses for him and his sister, he was granted a visa that was good for only twenty days.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

A startup founder who expensed “cellulite butter” to the bank during her trial for defrauding the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Foreign-based expenses still must be expensed over 15 years.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

“Edison will go to the California Utility Commission and say, ‘We need this money to be expensed in rates.’”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

But LaPierre conceded he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions, festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres.

From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various

Dubbed the productivity mega deduction, the government said it will allow for immediate expensing for a broad-based range of depreciable property on a permanent basis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The new deduction would permanently provide expensing to a much wider range of assets and expenses, with about two-thirds of investment in capital assets eligible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The key is timing: expensing changes when companies take deductions and pay taxes, not whether they pay them.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

“Compliance costs associated with tracking incremental qualified R&D for the credit are higher than expensing qualified R&D activity to take the deduction,” Watson says.

From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026

By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.

From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper


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