What is the meaning of EXPENSE. Phrases containing EXPENSE
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Derogatory term for someone interested in sport to the expense of smoking fags/getting hammered on our mate's dad's homebrew etc. From excellent cartoon of same name.
Testicles. Used if you are proved correct at the expense of someone being incorrect. Can be used also as an "I'm better than you!" comment. Usually used in the phrase: "eat my chuddies" whilst pointing at your crotch. (Note: Chuddie is actually Gujurati for underpants).
a youngster who has graduated in the school of winter experience thus: himself not knowing how severely frost could freeze and whiten his nose, his companions kept him in ignorance till he suffered the ordeal “unknowest.â€Â They enjoyed the joke at his expense, and surprised him by applying snow to the part. Then, with a clap on the back, told him he was a youngster no more but a whitenose
A great deal, usually obtained at the expense of others. (“Shack is a bagger. That guy went on a coastto-coast boondoggle cross-country with the skipper, even though we’re almost out of OPTAR for this quarter.â€)
v Mock version of “quantitative easing”, the U.K. government’s term for increasing the money supply in order to make customers happy, with the small expense of causing hyperinflation sometime in future. Probably ages away.
cost or expense ‘What’s the damage, mate?’
v. to look out for ones own interest at the expense of others; to selfishly prioritze ones own gain despite the possible consequences. "Yo, don’t do buisness with Mark… He be Dick Cheneying fools."Â
Expense is Black−American slang for a new born baby
Expense claim form... jokingly of course.
A workout technique in which the individual goes from one exercise to another. one set per movement per round, with minimal rest, thus gaining some aerobic benefit at the expense of maximal strength gains.
To contribute a share of some expense. [if you can chip in we can go to the Gay Pride day].
Verb. 1. To infuriate. Pronounced as in wind up a clock. 2. To tell lies or joke at the expense of the recipient. Noun. An act of lying or joking.
1 n terrible device which attaches to the back of your car and allows you to take your whole family on holiday at minimal expense and with maximum irritability. They’re more popular in Europe than they are in the U.S., where they’re called “trailers.” Be careful not to confuse a touring caravan (which a family will generally keep outside their house and drag behind their normal car somewhere for a few holidays a year) with a static caravan, which is generally deposited once by a truck and left there. Americans call both of these things “trailers,” and where a distinction is needed they’ll call the touring variants “travel trailers.” The devices that Americans call a “fifth wheel” — caravans which attach to a conventional diesel truck — are pretty much non-existent in the U.K. Another caravan variant common to both sides of the Atlantic is the “trailer tent,” which is like a caravan except the walls and roof fold out like some sort of ghastly mobile puppet theatre. No doubt you’re much less confused now. I could go on about caravans for days. 2 v the act of staying in a caravan: Doris has taken it into her head to go caravanning this weekend.
Disposable income. Due to not having the financial expense of children, gays have more disposable income.
Noun. In profit. E.g."After the deduction of my expenses I was still quids-in."
A member of ring, or group whose objective is to profit at the public's expense.
Disposable income. Due to not having the financial expense of children, gays have more disposable income.
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In the limits or compass of; not further in length than; as, within five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income.
v. i.
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
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An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
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Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
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A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
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Without cost or expense.
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A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
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A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
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To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
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Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
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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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Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
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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.
v. t.
To be at the expense of; to pay for; as, to stand a treat.
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Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
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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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Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
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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.
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Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
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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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