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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: expense - expiable</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="expense"> expense, noun, verb, -pensed, -pensing.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. cost; charge. Ex. The expense of the trip for the youngest child was very slight. He traveled at his uncle's expense. (Figurative.) We had many a laugh at his expense. (SYN) price. <DD> 2. the act or process of expanding; paying out of money; outlay. Ex. A boy at college puts his father to considerable expense. <DD> 3. a cause or occasion of spending. Ex. Running an automobile is an expense. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) loss or sacrifice. Ex. The town was captured at great expense to the victors. <DD> 5. (Obsolete.) money expended. <DD>v.t. to charge or deduct as an expense. Ex. Rails, for instance, are not depreciated but are carried at full value ... When the rail is replaced, it is expensed, reducing earnings (New York Times). expr. at the expense of, <DD> a. so as to be paid for by. Ex. I declined to have dinner at the expense of my friends and insisted on treating them instead. <DD> b. (Figurative.) with the loss or sacrifice of. Ex. Taney favored states' rights but not at the expense of basic national powers (Jerre S. Williams). expr. expenses, <DD> a. charges incurred in doing something. Ex. The expenses for storing our piano were in the neighborhood of $15. <DD> b. money to repay a person for what he has to spend to do his job. Ex. A traveling salesman gets expenses away from home besides his salary. </DL> <A NAME="expenseaccount"> expense account,<DL COMPACT><DD> a record of expenditure for travel, hotel accommodations, entertainment, and food, in connection with business, charged to or reimbursed by an employer or company. </DL> <A NAME="expenses"> expenses, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under expense. </DL> <A NAME="expensive"> expensive, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> costly; dear; highpriced. Ex. He wore an expensive necktie which cost $10. Women are such expensive things (George Meredith). adv. expensively. noun expensiveness. </DL> <A NAME="experience"> experience, noun, verb, -enced, -encing.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. what happens to a person; what is seen, done, felt, or lived through. Ex. Battle is a shattering experience to many men. We had several pleasant experiences on our trip. <DD> 2. all of the actions, events, or states which make up the life of a person, a community, a race, etc.. Ex. Nothing in human experience has prepared man for space travel. <DD> 3. knowledge or skill gained by doing, observing, or living through things. Ex. Have you had any experience in this kind of work? He has had little business experience. <DD> 4. the act or process of observing, doing, or living through things. Ex. People learn by experience. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes (Oscar Wilde). <DD>v.t. 1. to have happen to one; meet with; feel; live through. Ex. In life you experience pain, joy, and sorrow. <DD> 2. to learn by experience; find. Ex. I have experienced that a landscape and the sky unfold the deepest beauty (Hawthorne). expr. experience religion. See under religion. noun experiencer. </DL> <A NAME="experienced"> experienced, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having had experience; taught by experience. Ex. The job calls for a man experienced in driving a truck. <DD> 2. skillful or wise because of experience. Ex. an experienced teacher, an experienced nurse. (SYN) expert, practiced. </DL> <A NAME="experienceless"> experienceless, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without experience. </DL> <A NAME="experiencemeeting"> experience meeting,<DL COMPACT><DD> a meeting, as of members of a church, for the telling of religious experiences. </DL> <A NAME="experiencetable"> experience table,<DL COMPACT><DD> a record of the length of life among people having life insurance, used by actuaries to evaluate risks, premiums, etc. </DL> <A NAME="experient"> experient, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun an experienced person. Ex. She assumes the role of experient and sets out to describe her experiences (Fay Lezard). <DD>adj. experienced. </DL> <A NAME="experiential"> experiential, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having to do with experience. <DD> 2. based on or coming from experience. (SYN) empirical. adv. experientially. </DL> <A NAME="experientialism"> experientialism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the theory or doctrine that all knowledge is derived from experience. </DL> <A NAME="experientialist"> experientialist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who believes in or supports the theory of experientialism. </DL> <A NAME="experiment"> experiment, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to try in order to find out; make trials or tests. Ex. A baby experiments with his hands. The painter is experimenting with different paints to get the color he wants. <DD>noun 1. a test or trial to find out something. Ex. a cooking experiment. <DD> 2. a conducting of such tests or trials. Ex. Scientists test out theories by experiment. (SYN) experimentation. <DD> 3. an apparatus or instrument used in an experiment. Ex. On Apollo 11 was a package of three experiments--a passive seismometer, laser reflector, and solar wind sensor (Science Journal). noun experimenter. </DL> <A NAME="experimental"> experimental, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. based on experiments. Ex. Chemistry is an experimental science. <DD> 2. used for experiments. Ex. A new variety of wheat was developed at the experimental farm. <DD> 3. for testing or trying out. Ex. a young bird's experimental attempts to fly. This trip in the model of the new car will be only experimental. Youth is wholly experimental (Robert Louis Stevenson). <DD> 4. based on experience, not on theory or authority. Ex. experimental knowledge. (SYN) empirical. </DL> <A NAME="experimentalism"> experimentalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine or practice, especially in the fine arts, of experimenting freely with new techniques, forms, media, or the like. Ex. His literary experimentalism, his frank use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, sits a little oddly with his north-country material (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="experimentalist"> experimentalist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes experiments. Ex. Abstract examples of statement of form for its own sake without further "meaning" in a literary or representational sense are shown by such fertile experimentalists as Boris Margo (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="experimentalize"> experimentalize, intransitive verb, -ized, -izing. =experiment.</DL> <A NAME="experimentally"> experimentally, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. by making experiments. <DD> 2. as an experiment. </DL> <A NAME="experimentation"> experimentation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of experimenting. Ex. A cure for the disease was found by experimentation on animals. </DL> <A NAME="experimentative"> experimentative, adjective. =experimental.</DL> <A NAME="experimentist"> experimentist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a systematic experimenter. </DL> <A NAME="experimentize"> experimentize, intransitive verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to try experiments. </DL> <A NAME="experimentstation"> experiment station,<DL COMPACT><DD> a place where experiments in a particular line of research or activity, such as agriculture, are systematically carried on. </DL> <A NAME="expert"> expert, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a person who has much skill or who knows a great deal about some special thing; authority; specialist. Ex. She is an expert at fancy skating. <DD>adj. 1. having much skill; knowing a great deal about some special thing. Ex. an expert painter. He is an expert chemist. <DD> 2. requiring or showing special skill. Ex. expert workmanship, expert testimony. <DD>v.t. (Especially U.S. Informal.) to study or examine as an expert. Ex. to expert the accounts of a company. <DD>v.i. (Especially U.S. Informal.) to be or act as an expert. Ex. The millionaire ... devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge (Time). adv. expertly. noun expertness. </DL> <A NAME="expertise"> expertise, noun, verb, -ised, -ising.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. expert opinion or knowledge, often expressed on some matter submitted to consideration by experts. Ex. connoisseurs full of mumbo-jumbo and expertise. <DD> 2. the quality or state of being an expert; skill or expertness in a particular study or sport. Ex. His expertise was not equal to the task. <DD>v.i., v.t. =expertize. </DL> <A NAME="expertism"> expertism, noun. =expertise (def. 2).</DL> <A NAME="expertize"> expertize, verb, -ized, -izing.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. to give opinions as or in the manner of an expert. <DD>v.t. to bring expertise to bear on. Ex. Yet few Presidents have not used their personal influence and the publicity processes of government, as these were enlarged, perfected, and expertized (Arthur Krock). </DL> <A NAME="expertizer"> expertizer, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who expertizes. </DL> <A NAME="expertocredite"> experto credite,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) believe the expert; trust him who knows by experience. </DL> <A NAME="expertsystem"> expertsystem,<DL COMPACT><DD> a computer program that incorporates the knowledge of an expert in an area such as medicine or finance. Ex. Among the best-known expert systems are programs that contain medical information that can help doctors diagnose illnesses (G. Kolata). </DL> <A NAME="expiable"> expiable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be expiated. Ex. an expiable sin. </DL> <A HREF="expiate.dic">NEXT</A>