Ex*pense" (?), n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
1.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from expense.
Shak.
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
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Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham.
3.
Loss.
[Obs.]
Shak.
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Spenser.
Expense magazine Mil., a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.
H. L. Scott.
© Webster 1913.