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expensing

expensing is the present participle and gerund of expense.

Meaning of expense

Verb

expense (third-person singular simple present expenses, present participle expensing, simple past and past participle expensed)

  1. (transitive) 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.

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Questions about expensing

What is expensing the present participle and gerund of?
Expensing is the present participle and gerund of expense.

Words near expensing in the dictionary

  1. expenseful
  2. expensefully
  3. expensefulness
  4. expenseless
  5. expenses
  6. expensing
  7. expensive
  8. expensive drunk
  9. expensive drunks
  10. expensively
  11. expensiveness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: expensing (page history and authors); expense (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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