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Expense or Expence - What's the difference?

expense | expence |

As nouns the difference between expence and expense

is that expence is obsolete spelling of lang=en while expense is a spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.

As a verb expense is

to charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

expense

English

Noun

(wikipedia expense) (en noun)
  • A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
    • 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.
  • * , Sonnet 44:
    • Husband nature's riches from expense .
  • That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls.
    • Jones reached the final at the expense of Jones, who couldn´t beat him.
  • (obsolete) Loss.
  • * , Sonnet 30:
    • And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.

    Synonyms

    * (that which is expended) cost, charge, outlay, disbursement, expenditure, payment

    Derived terms

    * expense account

    Verb

  • To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
    • It should be acceptable to expense a business lunch with a client.

    Derived terms

    * expense magazine, (Military):'' a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot ''Military Dictionary ----

    expence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * (rfdate) Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana , BiblioBazaar LLC (2006), ISBN 1-4264-3406-5, page 88,
    • I know it is no easy matter so to deepen or hollow the channel of a bar, that it may never after need clearing, and that the expences run high: but my zeal for promoting the advantage of this colony having prompted me to make reflections on those passes, or entrances of the Missisippi,(SIC) and being perfectly well acquainted both with the country and the nature of the soil, I dare flatter myself, I may be able to accomplish it, to the great benefit of the province, and acquit myself therein with honour, at a small charge, and in a manner not to need repetition.