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expense

[ik-spens] / ɪkˈspɛns /


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Meta has fought hard, over multiple lawsuits spanning many months and at great expense, to defend its commitment to protecting children on its platforms.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

To be deductible, the primary purpose of the expense has to be business-related, Copeland wrote.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

At prevailing rates, interest expense reaches 4.5% of GDP by 2033 and 144% of all discretionary spending by 2043.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Since Walter and his Guggenheim Baseball Management Group purchased the team in 2012, they have spared no expense in winning 12 of the last 13 National League West championships and three World Series titles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Bailey is relieved that he has excess pocket money for the unplanned expense.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

She covered tuition and related college expenses should Dollywood employees enroll in higher education.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

She took legal action and earlier this month Hopkins appeared at the County Court in Swansea where she was ordered to pay Sweet £11,000 in damages and expenses, which had been due in October 2025.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

By contrast, Amazon.com reports Amazon Web Services, the world’s biggest cloud provider, as a stand-alone segment with sales, expenses and margins disclosed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Lively sought to recover more than $8 million in attorneys’ fees and other expenses, which Baldoni’s lawyers argued was so inflated the court should deny the claim altogether or substantially reduce it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 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

The company also expects to receive $126 million in pretax tariff refunds for trade duties expensed this year and last.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Using a three-year depreciation schedule means that $300 million in data-center equipment gets expensed at $100 million a year.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 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

It’s even more of a victory given how the 2025 tax cut incorporated full expensing of equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

They should improve upon the investment provisions in the tax act by making all the expensing provisions permanent, for instance.

From Barron's Apr. 17, 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

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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