"Expense" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 支出 | zhī chū | to spend / to pay out / expense |   |
| 费用 | fèi yòng | cost / expenditure / expense / CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4] | |
| 花费 | huā fèi | expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure | |
| 资 |  zī | resources / capital / to provide / to supply / to support / money / expense | |
| 用度 | yòng dù | expense | |
| 报销 | bào xiāo | to submit an expense account / to apply for reimbursement / to write off / to wipe out | |
| 自费 | zì fèi | at one's own expense / self-funded | |
| 冤枉钱 | yuān wang qián | wasted money / pointless expense | |
| 公费 | gōng fèi | at public expense | |
| 占便宜 | zhàn pián yi | advantageous / favorable / to benefit at others' expense / to take unfair advantage | |
| 垫付 | diàn fù | to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later | |
| 开胃 | kāi wèi | to whet the appetite / appetizing / to amuse oneself at sb's expense / to tease | |
| 用 | yòng | to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore | |
| 公派 | gōng pài | to send sb abroad at the government's expense | |
| 公费医疗 | gōng fèi yī liáo | medical treatment at public expense | |
| 巧立名目 | qiǎo lì míng mù | to fabricate excuses (idiom) / to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account) | |
| 讨巧 | tǎo qiǎo | to act cleverly to get what one desires / to get the best at least expense | |
| 报帐 | bào zhàng | render an account / submit an expense account / apply for reimbursement | |
| 偏废 | piān fèi | to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others | |
| 损公肥私 | sǔn gōng féi sī | to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom) / personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior | |
| 经营费用 | jīng yíng fèi yòng | business cost / business expense | |
| 只见树木，不见森林 | zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn lín | only see the trees, but not see the forest (idiom, from Mao Zedong, On contradictions 毛澤東|毛泽东, 矛盾論|矛盾论) / to concentrate on minutiae at the expense of the big picture | |
| 偏科 | piān kē | to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard | |
| 讨便宜 | tǎo pián yi | to look for a bargain / to seek advantage / to try to gain at expense of others | |
| 费用报销单 | fèi yòng bào xiāo dān | expense claim form | |
| 重形式轻内容 | zhòng xíng shì qīng nèi róng | heavy on form, light on substance / to stress form at the expense of content | |
| 现金支出 | xiàn jīn zhī chū | cash expense | |
| 非现金支出 | fēi xiàn jīn zhī chū | non-cash expense | |
| 给付范围内费用 | covered expense | | |
| 应计负债 | accrued liability / accrued expense | | |
| 可报销费用 | eligible expense | | |
| 预提费用 | yù tí fèi yòng | (accounting) accrued expense | |
| 好人 | hǎo rén | good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle | |
