Disburse vs Expense - What's the difference?
disburse | expense |
(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
* , Sonnet 44:
That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
(obsolete) Loss.
* , Sonnet 30:
To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
As verbs the difference between disburse and expense
is that disburse is (finance) to pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury while expense is to charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.As a noun expense is
a spending or consuming often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.disburse
English
Verb
(disburs)Usage notes
* Do not confuse with the scattering word disperse, despite similarity.Synonyms
(to pay out) shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)Derived terms
* disbursementexpense
English
Noun
(wikipedia expense) (en noun)- She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.
- Buying the car was a big expense , but will be worth it in the long run.
- We had a training weekend in New York, at the expense of our company.
- Husband nature's riches from expense .
- Jones reached the final at the expense of Jones, who couldn´t beat him.
- And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Synonyms
* (that which is expended) cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, paymentDerived terms
* expense accountVerb
- It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.