Cost vs. Expense

Costverb

To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.

Costverb

To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.

Costverb

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

Costverb

To calculate or estimate a price.

Costnoun

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

Costnoun

A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

Costnoun

(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.

Costnoun

Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

Costnoun

(obsolete) A rib; a side.

Costnoun

(heraldry) A cottise.

Costnoun

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

Costnoun

See Cottise.

Costnoun

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

Costnoun

Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

Costnoun

Expenses incurred in litigation.

Costverb

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

Costverb

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

Costnoun

the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

Costnoun

the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold);

Costnoun

value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;

Costverb

be priced at;

Costverb

require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice;

Cost

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.

Expensenoun

A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.

Expensenoun

The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.

Expensenoun

(obsolete) Loss.

Expenseverb

(transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

Expensenoun

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Expensenoun

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.

Expensenoun

Loss.

Expensenoun

amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)

Expensenoun

a detriment or sacrifice;

Expensenoun

money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer;

Expensenoun

the cost incurred in or required for something

Expensenoun

the costs incurred in the performance of one's job or a specific task

Expensenoun

a thing on which one is required to spend money

Expenseverb

offset (an item of expenditure) as an expense against taxable income

Expenseverb

charge (something) to an expense account

Expense

Expenditure is an outflow of money, or any form of fortune in general, to another person or group as payment for an item, service, or other category of costs. For a tenant, rent is an expense.