Expense

Etymology

Latin expensa , or expensum , from expensus , past participle of expendere . See expend

Noun

1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

   Husband nature's riches from expense. - Shakespeare, Sonnet XCIV

2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
3. Courting popularity at his party's expense. - Brougham?
4. (Obsolete): Loss. - Shakespeare

   And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. - Edmund Spenser

Derived expression

• Expense magazine, (Military): a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - H. L. Scott