What is the meaning of EXPEN. Phrases containing EXPEN
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n.
A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
a.
Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
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Taken from the purse; expended.
n.
A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners.
imp. & p. p.
of Expend
v. t.
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
n.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
v. t.
To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting.
n.
An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Expend
a.
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
n.
A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
n.
That which is expended or paid out; expense.
a.
Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
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Without cost or expense.
n.
Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
n.
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.
n.
The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.
n.
The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
a.
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
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