Expense vs Consumption - What's the difference?
expense | consumption |
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.
The act of consuming something.
The amount consumed.
(pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
(senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
As nouns the difference between expense and consumption
is that expense is a spending or consuming often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds while consumption is the act of consuming something.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)- 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.
Derived terms
* expense magazine, (Military):'' a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. - Henry Lee Scot ''Military Dictionary ----consumption
English
Noun
(-)- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- gross national consumption
