Expend vs Expense - What's the difference?
expend | expense |
(label) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
* , King Henry VI Part 2 , act 3, scene 1:
to spend, disburse
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.
In transitive terms the difference between expend and expense
is that expend is to consume, exhaust some resource 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.expend
English
Verb
(en verb)- If my death might make this island happy
- I would expend it with all willingness.
expense
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.