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minor expense

n. (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified; "he requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses" [syn: incidental expense, incidental]

Usage examples of "minor expense".

No, I can see that yours is minor expense, Mr Cabrillo, and if it were up to me I should authorise it without thinking twice.

A few of them cheerily admitted they had not had children and were not going to have children, for they had volunteered for D-Bal shots, thus doing away with a running minor expense and, more importantly, ensuring a certain peace of mind and unbroken continuity during tender moments.

It's a minor expense compared with the return which comes from keeping him content.

For each of seventeen racehorses there was a separate hard-covered blue ledger, in which was listed every major and minor expense incurred in its training.

His other alternative -- expressed privately to his wife -- had been to slaughter the animals and save the minor expense of feeding them.

The television station in Farberville was mentioned, as was the minor expense of calling Little Rock to talk to the nice boys and girls at the Gazette.