expense

noun/ɪkˈspɛns/

Frequency rank: #3,074 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

The money spent on something; a cost.

Illustration for the English word “expense”

Example sentence

The new car was a significant expense for the family budget.

Synonyms & related words

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