What is the meaning of EXPEN. Phrases containing EXPEN
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n.
The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.
n.
An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
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That which is expended or paid out; expense.
v. t.
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
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.
n.
A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
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The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
n.
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
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Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
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A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
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Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
n.
A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
n.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
v. t.
To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting.
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Without cost or expense.
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Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
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Taken from the purse; expended.
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Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
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