- expense, disbursal, disbursement - amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
--1 is a kind of cost
--1 has particulars:business expense, trade expense; interest expense; lobbying expense; medical expense; moving expense; operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items; personal expense Derived form: verb disburse1 - spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlay - the act of spending or disbursing money
--2 is a kind of payment, defrayal, defrayment
--2 has particulars:expending, expenditure; deficit spending, compensatory spending, pump priming Derived form: verb disburse1