Expense(n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Expense(n.) 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.
Expense(n.) Loss.
Expensive(a.) Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
Expensive(a.) Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
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