Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Expense

Expense , noun

[Latin expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, from expensus, past participle of expendere. See Expend.]

1.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Husband nature's riches from expense. — Shakespeare
2.
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.
Courting popularity at his party's expense. — Brougham
3.
Loss. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. — Spenser
Collocations (1)
Expense magazine (Military) , a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. — H. L. Scott