expense

Everyday

1. Expense is the amount of money something costs. tree →
2. An expense is something you have to pay for. tree →
3. Expenses are money a worker spends for the job and is paid back for. tree →
4. At someone's expense means they paid for it, or that a joke made them look silly. tree →

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 →
• Food is the family's biggest expense. tree →
• Mum's work pays her travel expenses. tree →
• They laughed at my expense. tree →
• The trip was paid for at the school's expense. tree →
• Spare no expense for the party! tree →
• Keep a list of your weekly expenses. tree →
• I have learned this at my own expense. tree →

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 →

Note

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