 
		
		Definition of expense:
		
		
		(n) :
		
		a spending or consuming; 
disbursement; 
expenditure; 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
		
 
								
				"husband nature's riches from expense.  - Shakespeare, Sonnet XCIV"
			
			
	
		
		
		(v) :
		
		to 
charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works
		
 
								
				"it should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client."