expense

On-Yomi: — Kun-Yomi: つい.やす、つい.える

Koohii stories:

1) [esaulgd] 6-10-2007(212): An expense is an expense, whether you put it in dollars or in local money.

2) [smithsonian] 16-5-2007(98): A dollar sign next to an amount of money denotes an expense.

3) [Fluhk] 20-5-2006(35): Shell, one of the largest oil multinationals in the world, makes a lot of dollars in Nigeria, often at the expense of the local population.

4) [zanzibar] 14-2-2009(26): There's always an extra expense involved when you try to convert DOLLARS into other MONEY (clams).

5) [adhmm] 20-5-2008(25): I drew up a monthly expense list, and the largest expense was me buying shells with dollar signs painted on top of them… what's wrong with me?