Expense account

Definition

expense /Çk'spens/ n ၁။ (က) [U] အကုန္အက်။ စရိတ္။ the expense of time, energy and cash ❍ He hired a plane, regardless of expense. ❍ Most children in Britain are educated at public expense. ❍ The garden was transformed at great/ considerable/ vast expense. ❍ She spared no expense (ie spent as much money as was needed) to make the party a success. (ခ) [C usu sing ] ေငြကုန္ေပါက္။ ေငြယိုေပါက္။ Running a car is a big expense. ၂။ expenses [pl] စရိတ္စက။ အကုန္အက်။ travelling expenses ❍ House repairs, new furniture and other expenses reduced her bank balance to almost nothing. ❍ Who's meeting (ie paying for) the expenses of your trip? ❍ She's just returned from an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden (ie paid for by her employer). ❏ at sb's expense [ IDM ] ၁။ အကုန္အက်ခံလ်က္။ We were entertained at the company's expense. ၂။ ရယ္သြမ္း ေသြးလ်က္။ ရယ္စရာလုပ္လ်က္။ They had a good laugh at Sam's expense. ❏ at the expense of sth [ IDM ] အဆံုး႐ံႈး အနစ္နာခံလ်က္။ အထိခိုက္ခံလ်က္။ He build up a successful business but at the expense of his health. ❏ expense account n လုပ္ငန္းသံုးေငြစာရင္း။ Whenever he entertains clients, he puts it on/ charges it to his expense account. ❏ go to/ put sb to the expense of sth/ doing sth, go to/ put sb to a lot of, etc expense [ IDM ] ေငြကုန္ေၾကးက်ခံ သည္။ ကုန္က်သည္။ It's stupid to go to the expense of taking music lessons if you never practise. ❍ Their visit has put us to a great deal of expense. ❏ no expense(s) spared [ IDM ] ကုန္ခ်င္ကုန္ပါေစ။ ကုန္စမ္း ပါေစ။ I'm going to take you out to dinner, no expense spared.

Examples

1. Rent is our biggest expense.
2. You can claim part of your telephone bill as a business expense.
3. Travelling/medical/legal expenses
4. A factory’s operating expenses
5. [incur an expense] : The insurance will cover all expenses incurred during your time in hospital.
6. [cover/meet an expense] : People struggling to meet their basic living expenses
7. A powerful computer is worth the expense if you use it regularly.
8. [expense of] : The expense and inconvenience of recovering cargo from sunken ships
9. [go to great/considerable etc expense] : His parents went to great trouble and expense to make sure the party was a success.
10. [go to the expense of doing something] : We didn’t want to go to the expense of sending a courier.
11. [put someone to the expense of doing something] : That little mistake put us to the expense of reprinting the whole book.
12. The company pays all our expenses.
13. [put something on expenses] : Let me pay – I can put it on expenses.
14. [plus expenses] : Your salary will be £50
15. 000 a year
16. plus expenses.
17. [reimburse expenses] : All reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.