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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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The difficulty and expense of the various alternatives increases “the attractiveness of a resource that’s already operating and producing clean energy around the clock,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Against problems of that scale, a $10 student planner is a tiny expense.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

But he complained of the extra expense and being "deprived of the current technology".

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

So the fund’s net expense ratio is 0.85%, but its full expense ratio is 0.94%.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Of course, the safest way to expense to one’s Wall Street firm a day of playing Full Metal Jacket was to invite some customer along.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

When the owner of a nearby mobile-home park sold his land, he told his renters they had to leave, and that each would receive $20,000 in moving expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Jenny Bush, president of Cummins’s power-systems business, said the Indiana-based company is expanding production in smaller increments and limiting plant expenses.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Carradine’s family and estate are seeking unspecified general and wrongful-death damages and compensation for medical expenses incurred during his hospitalization.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

The company, G3 Enterprises, said the challenges faced by the broader wine industry — declining consumer demand, inflation, rising expenses and increased competition — prompted the cuts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

I saw the deposits for the food and music, and one or two other expenses that probably had to do with the dance.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

A startup founder who expensed “cellulite butter” to the bank during her trial for defrauding the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The largest spend is on the equipment that fills data centers, which gets expensed over 5½ years in Meta’s case.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 2025

Asked why he expensed Uber rides when he had a take-home car provided by the union, he said the rides were for members doing union business.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

But LaPierre conceded he wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the nonprofit gun rights organization without disclosing them.

From Seattle Times Feb. 14, 2024

There were at Athens various funds, applicable to public purposes; one of which, and among the most considerable, was appropriated for the expensed of sacrifices, processions, festivals, spectacles, and of the theatres.

From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 by Various

That 100% expensing provision was restored and made permanent last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Bodner was fired after expensing a Super Bowl platter, complete with deli meats, cookies and Buffalo wings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The new law permanently provides full expensing, allowing businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of new investments, just as they do for labor or utility costs.

From MarketWatch Apr. 7, 2026

“Compliance costs associated with tracking incremental qualified R&D for the credit are higher than expensing qualified R&D activity to take the deduction,” Watson says.

From Barron's Mar. 14, 2026

By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.

From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper




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