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How to pronounce “expense”
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Pronunciation guide for expense
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of expense with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Ben Graham & the Growth Investor
You had $59 billion of expenses.
- Definition summary
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
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How to pronounce expense
Ben Graham & the Growth Investor

You had $59 billion of expenses.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “expense”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
- (obsolete) Loss.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
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