v. t.
If my death might make this island happy . . .
I would expend it with all willingness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.
n. [ LL. ] (O. Eng. Law) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. A. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend. ]
Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Expense magazine (Mil.),
a. Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. --
a. Without cost or expense. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]
The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.
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