Thesaurus results for EXPENSES

expenses

noun

plural of expense

as in costs

a payment made in the course of achieving a result they spared no expense in building the house of their dreams

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Recent Examples of expenses Non-interest expenses came in below expectations, which is encouraging, but the $112 million beat versus the FactSet consensus didn't make up for all of the top-line softness. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026 The complaint accuses Love Renaissance of improperly diverting money from Walker’s touring, recording, marketing, and merchandising budgets, while charging excessive company expenses to those accounts in bad faith. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026 Multiplying minutes saved by a salary rate does not establish a reduction in payroll expenses. — Hani Assi, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The payments are adjusted every year based on inflation, but many older Americans and their advocates have long said that the annual cost of living adjustment (COLA) formula doesn’t match the actual increase in expenses. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026 In total, expenses for the apartment amounted to about $7,200 a month. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Other equipment expenses that comprise the body, motors, and supporting electronics are more and less fixed at around four hundred dollars. — Muskanbhatia, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026 In the statement, Skydance said savings would come primarily from combining technology and other operations, such as negotiating deals with suppliers and reducing overlapping marketing expenses as well as consolidating real estate. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 In 2025, the UC spent two-thirds of its total annual expenses, which amounted to nearly $60 billion, on employee salaries and benefits. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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That flexibility, whether enabled by SSTs or other controls, could lower costs and speed up grid connections.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Anger about rising inflation, from energy prices to housing costs, has led to clashes in Italy and Portugal.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026

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Between Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta, over $720 billion of capital expenditures is projected to be spent this year, most of it on AI infrastructure, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.

— Alyson Shontell, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
But the attorney general said the expenditures have been worth it, salvaging billions in state funding that the administration had sought to claw back, and protecting the rights of the state and its residents.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026

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