See expense in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "expense", "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "form": "expenses", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "hyphenation": "ex‧pense", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "antonyms": [ { "word": "income" } ], "categories": [ "Countable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "Food is a huge expense for many people around the world." } ], "glosses": [ "An expense is something for which you spend money." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cost" }, { "word": "charge" } ] }, { "antonyms": [ { "word": "income" } ], "categories": [ "Countable nouns", "Uncountable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "If your income is less than your expenses, you have a serious problem." }, { "text": "The company paid all of his expenses when he was in Shanghai." }, { "text": "The building was repaired at great expense." } ], "glosses": [ "An expense is an amount of money that you spend." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable & uncountable" ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cost" }, { "word": "charge" } ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "She often makes jokes at her own expense." }, { "text": "We have to decide whether safety at the expense of freedom is worth the cost." } ], "glosses": [ "If you do x at the expense of y, x hurts y because it makes y have less money, less time, less social status, etc." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "cost" } ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɪkˈspɛns/" }, { "audio": "en-us-expense.ogg", "tags": [ "US" ] } ], "word": "expense" }
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