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Word Meanings - EXPENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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. Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham. 3. Loss. Shak. And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. Expense magazine , a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.

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  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • CHARGEANT
    Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
  • FIGURE
    1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure
  • MISCOMPUTE
    To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
  • CHARGE
    1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
  • UNDERRATE
    A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.
  • DISBURSEMENT
    1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • PRICE
    to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
  • CHARGEABLE
    1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
  • CONTEMNER
    One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
  • PRICEITE
    A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
  • CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
    A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
  • VALUE
    1. To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. The mind doth value every moment. Bacon. The queen is valued thirty thousand strong. Shak. The king must
  • UNDERVALUE
    1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
  • VILIFY
    1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and
  • WORTH
    1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
  • WORTHWHILE
    Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
  • OUTLAY
    1. A laying out or expending. 2. That which is expended; expenditure. 3. An outlying haunt. Beau. & Fl.
  • WORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
  • REPAYMENT
    1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
  • MISCHARGE
    To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • ENCHARGE
    To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
  • OVERCHARGE
    1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
  • UNCHARGE
    1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
  • PETWORTH MARBLE
    A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
  • CONFIGURE
    To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
  • WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
    Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
  • SURCHARGEMENT
    The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.

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