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expensable

expensable adjective: eligible to be claimed as a business expense.

Adjective

expensable (not comparable)

  1. Eligible to be claimed as a business expense.
    • The budget also proposes to make computers and office automation expensable rather than depreciable, i.e. expenditures on these items can be written off in the year in which they were purchased rather than depreciated over time.1983, Singapore Business, volume 7, numbers 1-6, page 3
    • Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52

Origin of expensable

From expense + -able.

Questions about expensable

What does expensable mean?
Expensable means eligible to be claimed as a business expense.
What part of speech is expensable?
Expensable is an adjective.

Words near expensable in the dictionary

  1. expenditors
  2. expenditure
  3. expenditures
  4. expends
  5. expenny
  6. expensable
  7. expense
  8. expense account
  9. expense accounts
  10. expensed
  11. expenseful

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