English-Spanish translations for expense

• coste
  Esto reducirá los costes de transporte, las compensaciones de gastos, los hoteles, etc. This will reduce the costs of transport, expense allowances, hotels, etc.
  En segundo lugar, la cobertura del riesgo biométrico tiene un coste alto y este coste se traslada a los beneficiarios. Secondly, biometric risk cover is expensive and this expense is passed on to the beneficiaries.
  Eso significa que se necesita un ataúd de zinc, cuyo coste es enorme. That means that a zinc coffin is required, at enormous expense.
• costo
  El analfabetismo representa, además, un costo para las empresas y desde el punto de vista social, además de un elemento de exclusión. Illiteracy also represents an expense, a cost both for businesses and in social terms, as well as a cause of exclusion.

Definition of expense

• A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds
• The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated
• Loss
• To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works

Examples

• She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education
• Buying the car was a big expense, but will be worth it in the long run
• We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company
• Jones reached the final at the expense of Smith, who couldnt beat him
• It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client

Related words

• expenses
• expense account
• expense account fiddler
• expense allowance
• at someone's expense
• incidental expense
• at the expense of
• matter of expense
• public expense