1. (n.) Cost; use of money, resources or time; spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
2. (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.
3. (n.) Loss.
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