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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expense account
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
▪ The benefits considered least important were the amount of holiday and an expense account.
▪ They will hit the top earner, the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
▪ Things have also changed for the employee who receives an expense account.
▪ You gain a whole new sense of financial responsibility the moment you leave the corporate expense account behind.
Wiktionary
expense account

n. 1 A bank account which employees may make withdrawals from for work-related purposes. 2 An arrangement whereby an employee is reimbursed for work-related expenses.

WordNet
expense account

n. an account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expenses [syn: travel and entertainment account]

Wikipedia
Expense account

An expense account is the right to reimbursement of money spent by employees for work-related purposes. Some common expense accounts are: administrative expense, amortization expense, bad debt expense, cost of goods sold, depreciation expense, freight-out, income tax expense, insurance expense, interest expense, loss on disposal of plant assets, maintenance and repairs expense, rent expense, salaries and wages expense, selling expense, supplies expense and utilities expense.

Usage examples of "expense account".

He held in his hand a long stick to which was attached a round tin can which he rattled continuously and was as continuously ignored by the passers-by he solicited, so I thought of my elastic expense account, crossed the street and dropped a couple of coins in his box.

On top of his $300,000 annual expense account, Nixon's 24-hour-a-day Secret Service protection will cost the taxpayers between $500 and $1000 a day for as long as he lives -- a conservative figure, considering the daily cost of things like helicopters, patrol boats, walkie-talkies and car telephones, along with salaries and living expenses for ten or 12 full-time agents.

But then Major Lee added, What Washington did was refuse a salary but demand an expense account.

When we looked at the shot-bag of silver, now and then, we seemed to be wasting our substance in riotous living, but if we referred to the expense account we could see that we had not been doing anything of the kind.

In actuality, the expense account was one of the few real perks of the trade.