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Expense vs Tuition - What's the difference?

expense | tuition |

As nouns the difference between expense and tuition

is that expense is a spending or consuming often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds while tuition is (label) a sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).

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 ----

    tuition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a high school, boarding school, university, or college).
  • The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
  • (label) care, guardianship.
  • * 1599 , :
  • BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you—
    CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,—
    DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick.
    BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.