Expense vs Finance - What's the difference?
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A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
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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.
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To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
The management of money and other assets.
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(usually in plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to ; to support.
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As verbs the difference between expense and finance
is that expense is to charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works while finance is .As a noun expense
is a spending or consuming often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.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 ----finance
English
Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Derived terms
* corporate finance * financial * part-finance (verb ) * personal finance * public financeExternal links
* (wikipedia "finance")Verb
(financ)- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.