Expense \Ex*pense"\, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]

1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Husband nature's riches from expense. --Shak.

2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

Courting popularity at his party's expense. --Brougham.

3. Loss. [Obs.]

--Shak.

And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. --Spenser.

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. --H. L. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)