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Personal expense   /pˈərsɪnɪl ɪkspˈɛns/   Listen
Personal expense

noun
1.
The cost of personal or family living.






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"Personal expense" Quotes from Famous Books



... commons for a month) which would have meant starvation to the penniless; they contemplated entertainments and journeys, and in the case of a New College Doctor, even the maintenance of a private servant, at the personal expense of their scholars and Fellows; they prohibited the expenditure of money on extravagant dress and amusements. William of Wykeham made allowances for the expense of proceeding to degrees in the University when one of his Fellows had no private ...
— Life in the Medieval University • Robert S. Rait

... 'unmanly,' he would let them go by. He was, he conceived, bound by his calling to be what people called impertinent, and manliness had nothing to do with him. But 'inhuman' and blasphemous!' Why had he come all the way over from Plum-cum-Pippins, at considerable personal expense, except in furtherance of that highest humanity which concerns itself with eternity? And as for blasphemy, it might, he thought, as well be said that he was blasphemous whenever he read the Bible aloud to his flock! His ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope

... one who has had no military training you have behaved wonderfully well. The thanks of Connecticut will be awarded to you in due season, and I will see that whatever personal expense you may have been put to shall be reimbursed to you out of the amount ...
— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan



Words linked to "Personal expense" :   disbursal, disbursement, expense



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