Expensed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Recorded as a cost or expenditure for business purposes
2. Charged to an expense account rather than as an asset purchase
3. Documented financially as an outgoing cost related to operations

Etymology: "Expensed" is the past tense and past participle of "expense," used in the sense of recording a cost in accounts. The verb's roots go back to Latin "expendere," meaning "to weigh out," from "ex-" ("out") and "pendere" ("to weigh"). The Latin sense was literal: weighing out payment, usually in metal, before coinage made counting easier. From there it came to mean spending or paying out, and the noun "expense" arrived in Middle English through Old French "espense" and Anglo-Norman "expense," drawn from Late Latin "expensa," the feminine past participle form of "expendere." Because "expense" and "spend" share the same Latin source, "expense" is a doublet of the Spanish-derived "speso," itself from the same root.

Synonyms: charged, costed, accounted, billed, allocated

Antonyms: saved, gained, earned, profited, accrued