noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unnecessary expense/cost
▪ He thinks advertising is an unnecessary expense.
expense account
▪ I have an expense account and spend about £10,000 a year on entertaining.
funeral expenses/costs
incur expenses/costs/losses/debts etc
▪ If the council loses the appeal, it will incur all the legal costs.
▪ the heavy losses incurred by airlines since September 11th
out-of-pocket expenses
travel expenses/costs
▪ They offered to pay my travel expenses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
additional
▪ It never breaks down, doesn't need a battery, and there is no additional expense once you own it.
▪ Equipment could be located at any of the existing restaurants without serious dislocation or additional expense.
▪ There are a number of other possibilities, if you are willing to incur the additional expense.
▪ I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him.
▪ Certainly he incurs no additional cost or expense.
considerable
▪ A solution custom-built, as considerable expense, promptly out-dated by technology.
▪ The Peace Corps goes to considerable expense to provide training programs involving the best qualified lecturers available.
▪ When it is demolished it is lost for good and can only be duplicated at considerable expense.
▪ Even new-media producers concede there is considerable expense and technical expertise needed to surf the Internet.
▪ Yet, the practitioner manages to deal with the problem albeit at considerable expense.
▪ The training plan Considerable effort and expense were employed in providing information and training to help boards get established.
▪ The polytechnic was busily being renamed, and at considerable expense, when the new name was suddenly dropped.
▪ On the Maidenhead side, it would mean considerable expense and demolition of properties - it would be much more expensive.
enormous
▪ It can't even be given away, so it ends up being stored at enormous expense on even more land.
▪ Before the conversion of Granby House, it was not clear how this could be done without incurring enormous expense.
extra
▪ The first way is best but involves the extra expense of a gearbox.
▪ The extra expense would amount to $ 112, 320 a year in added fuel costs.
▪ It is certainly worth the extra expense of paying their fees and hotel costs.
▪ That means many gourmet coffee shops more than covered the extra expense with their retail price increases.
▪ The hydroelectric scheme may involve the potash industry in an extra expense.
▪ Mauve proposed his name for membership of the Pulchri Art Club, where Vincent could draw the models available without extra expense.
▪ Abbey National has woken up to the extra expense that a remortgage brings and is offering £200 towards legal fees on completion.
▪ And his small capital was draining away with the extra expense of Amy, Timmy and even the cats.
great
▪ And often at great expense to ourselves.
▪ If so, it would have to be removed professionally at great expense.
▪ Too much of it, however, is thoughtlessly neglected or replaced, often at great expense.
▪ It took nearly 18 years, thousands of hours and great expense for authorities to arrest a suspect in the Unabomber case.
▪ The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery, or under primitive conditions.
▪ I immediately had copies made at great expense because it was typewritten on onionskin paper in the 1940s.
▪ Were the qualities found in a producer so rare that they could be purchased only at great expense?
▪ For knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.
public
▪ Even fee-paying pupils could, if parental circumstances entitled them, receive full or partial remission of fees at the public expense.
▪ The federal government obligingly constructed logging roads into the wildernesses at public expense to accommodate the trucks and men and machinery.
▪ For years governments have let scientists pursue the defenceless boson at public expense.
▪ The specter that has haunted the economist has been the monopoly seeking extortionate gains at the public expense.
▪ Such issues should, as currently occurs in most tax cases, always be litigated at the public expense.
▪ In fact, without the system that allowed presidents to amass a personal fortune at public expense, they may need to.
rich
▪ Poor people can stand being poor but not if some one else is getting rich at their expense.
▪ The banding system and property valuations are devised deliberately to protect the rich at the expense of the rest.
▪ It will be reluctant to propose a law to make banks £500m richer at the expense of local taxpayers.
▪ Although inequality has increased, the economic gains have not generally been by the rich at the expense of the poor.
▪ Why go further, especially if it will benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else?
unnecessary
▪ Parking where you have done seems a rather unnecessary expense, doesn't it?
▪ In such cases, the X-ray leads to unnecessary discomfort, expense and emotional distress.
▪ I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him.
▪ We feel that this is a very unnecessary expense and would be very time consuming for us to calculate.
▪ Misunderstanding and confusion are rife sometimes causing unnecessary damage or expense, personal injury or even death.
▪ But objectors say the loo is an unnecessary expense.
▪ Most men consider them an unnecessary expense, if they consider them at all; contraception is a women's issue.
▪ This can save time, worry and unnecessary expense for your family.
vast
▪ Unfortunately some solutions rely on structural changes for effect, but these don't always have to involve vast expense.
▪ East Berlin is being rebuilt and restored at vast expense as a full-scale capital and show-window.
▪ The vast expense of the prison system has led to the development of various non-custodial alternatives.
▪ The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising - at our vast expense.
■ NOUN
account
▪ The benefits considered least important were the amount of holiday and an expense account.
▪ See if you can put it on an expense account.
▪ So they can come with time off work and probably on an expense account, even to a far-flung location.
▪ Things have also changed for the employee who receives an expense account.
▪ They will hit the top earner, the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
▪ You gain a whole new sense of financial responsibility the moment you leave the corporate expense account behind.
business
▪ This can therefore be treated as a withdrawal rather than a business expense.
▪ If adjusted gross income is high enough, large amounts of business expense deductions will be lost under this 2 percent formula.
▪ Charging an expense on a company credit card does not automatically make it a bona fide business expense.
interest
▪ This total is then divided by interest expense to obtain the times interest earned ratio.
▪ Next comes the interest expense account.
▪ Finally, interest expense on the long-term bank loan is payable quarterly at the rate of 12 percent per year.
▪ The company stands to save at least $ 13 million a year in interest expense by replacing higher-cost debt.
▪ Lease payments are treated partially as interest expense and partly as amortization of the capital-lease liability.
▪ Employee expenses declined to 50. 2 percent of revenue after interest expense from 52. 3 percent a year ago.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ Of course our cost reductions are not being achieved at the expense of quality in our building standards.
▪ It was equally important to outshine everyone else around me - in other words, to achieve at the expense of others.
▪ All this had been achieved at the expense of the Liberal Party which had monopolized all three areas before 1910.
▪ In 1966 Denis Healey.: Military strength is of little value if it is achieved at the expense of economic health.
▪ All the great middle-class moral reforms of the age had been achieved at the expense of pleasure and enjoyment.
▪ A major new endowment for Gloucester could only be achieved at the expense of existing interests, and this was politically unacceptable.
▪ For example, helping one client obtain a council tenancy may be achieved at the expense of others on the list.
▪ These positive aspects of the Michigan law may, however, have been achieved at the expense of simplicity.
avoid
▪ It is very important that the condition be recognised soas to avoid the expense and trouble of investigations and multiple consultant referrals.
▪ Whenever they can avoid the expense and trouble of employing a person by investing in another robot they do so.
▪ Of course, Vincent explained to Theo, he could avoid the expense of models and use his imagination.
▪ They avoid the expense of large cabinets and wind and vibration problems are completely eliminated.
gain
▪ Slaves and their owners have obvious conflicts of interest, as one gains at the expense of the other.
▪ The specter that has haunted the economist has been the monopoly seeking extortionate gains at the public expense.
▪ As in the Reich, it seems that they had gained votes at the expense of the middle-class Centre Party.
▪ Logical coherence has been gained at the expense of empirical relevance.
▪ This creates a fundamental conflict of interest between social groups since one gains at the expense of another.
▪ We are made to share his view, and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good.
incur
▪ There are a number of other possibilities, if you are willing to incur the additional expense.
▪ Before the conversion of Granby House, it was not clear how this could be done without incurring enormous expense.
▪ Provided that it is reasonable to incur the particular expense, however, it is immaterial that the expense may be very large.
▪ If you are in any doubt about your entitlement then you should consult your line manager before you incur any expense.
▪ She was deemed to have incurred the expense of the journey and was charged interest on her travel costs.
justify
▪ But the results justify the expense.
▪ I don't see how we could justify the expense of it.
▪ It is doubtful, though, that clarity of signal alone would justify the expense of making the mobile-phone network digital.
save
▪ Another good feature was the sponsored breakfasts each morning at 7am: they saved delegates expense and guaranteed a good turn out.
▪ It was too big for her to look after alone, and it would save him the expense of renting a flat.
▪ Only those who really want it would buy it, saving you expense.
▪ A few parents are having their children circumcised in hospital to save some time and expense.
▪ He turned well, however, and dived to save at the expense of a corner.
▪ That will save money and expense, but the question is, will it guarantee anything for the pensioners themselves?
spare
▪ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had spared no expense to feed the multitude.
▪ Slopeside lodgings cost more, but often you are spared the expense of renting a car.
▪ He is totally dedicated to his calling, his art, and spares no expense to fulfil it.
▪ They spared no expense when the New York Public Library was built at the turn of the century.
▪ Officials can be spared their jet lag, and the taxpayer can be spared the expense of shuttling them around the world.
▪ We spared no expense in preparing ourselves for a long strike and the decertification of the unions.
▪ Branson spared no expense in getting Event off the ground.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buy sth at the cost/expense/price of sth
damn the consequences/expense/calories etc
▪ At the outset of our friendship it was always Brian who exploded and damn the consequences.
▪ Spurrier says whatever is on his always-racing mind, even in victory and figures damn the consequences.
defray costs/expenses
▪ And they allow boat owners the chance to defray costs by chartering out their vessels through the club.
▪ Donations are welcome to defray expenses.
▪ The price of the ticket has been kept low and it is necessary to run raffles to defray expenses.
living expenses
▪ Most of my paycheck just goes to living expenses.
▪ At present the county council pays his tuition fees and we pay his living expenses, which we can continue.
▪ But that money's for his work ... not for living expenses.
▪ Couples who register pledge to be jointly responsible for their basic living expenses.
▪ It gave us medical coverage and helped cover our living expenses.
▪ So after living expenses and charity there's not a lot left over.
▪ Then there is an estimate of how much was required or expended for his own personal and living expenses.
▪ They borrowed more money for living expenses, then the second mortgage of £16,000 from a company call Dorend.
meet a debt/cost/expense etc
▪ Barnardo's had to draw £1.7 million from its reserves to meet costs.
money/expense is no object
spare no expense/effort
▪ Branson spared no expense in getting Event off the ground.
▪ He is totally dedicated to his calling, his art, and spares no expense to fulfil it.
▪ It attracted more retail savings than even the government, which spares no effort to tap the market.
▪ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had spared no expense to feed the multitude.
▪ She was often ill, and Hubert spared no effort to make her well again.
▪ They spared no expense when the New York Public Library was built at the turn of the century.
▪ We spared no expense in preparing ourselves for a long strike and the decertification of the unions.
travelling expenses
▪ A training allowance and travelling expenses for the 16 weeks of the programme.
▪ His astronomical travelling expenses all but bankrupted the club, and his non-appearance at over half the games sapped team morale.
▪ It was held that he was not entitled to claim his travelling expenses from the advertiser.
▪ She was awarded £60 travelling expenses by the court.
▪ The clergy's travelling expenses are chargeable as extras.
▪ The company also paid travelling expenses for all employees following the move of their department for a six-month period.
▪ The full amount of excess travelling expenses can be reclaimed.
▪ The prize includes up to £500 travelling expenses for you and your party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a practical matter, a receipt showing the amount of the expense is an absolute prerequisite to substantiating a travel expense.
▪ Gast decided to stick around at his own expense and film as much as he could with the fighters.
▪ I was educated at his expense and until I repay his investment, it is illegal to employ me directly.
▪ Or we could leave it up to the electricity generators to reduce the impact, at the expense of higher bills.
▪ The fateful words do not establish a trust in favour of him, but instead a trust at his expense in favour of another person.
▪ The problem is one of expense and effort in doing so, not the availability of the material.
▪ Thus the legal aid scheme permits those eligible to take the risk of litigation at the possible expense of the Fund.