"Expense" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 yòng to use / to make use of / to employ / (coverb) with / using / to need / to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness / utility / (bound form) expense / outlay / (courteous) to eat / to drink / (literary) hence / therefore
 fèi yòng cost / expenditure / expense / CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
 huā fèi expense / cost / to spend (time or money) / expenditure
 zī resources / capital / to provide / to supply / to support / money / expense
 yòng dù expense
 fù dān to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc) / burden
 bào xiāo to submit an expense account / to apply for reimbursement / to write off / to wipe out
 zì fèi at one's own expense / self-funded
 yuān wang qián wasted money / pointless expense
 gōng fèi at public expense
便 zhàn pián yi advantageous / favorable / to benefit at others' expense / to take unfair advantage
 diàn fù to pay sb else's expense with the expectation of being reimbursed by that person later
 kāi wèi to whet the appetite / appetizing / to amuse oneself at sb's expense / to tease
 gōng pài to send sb abroad at the government's expense
 gōng fèi yī liáo medical treatment at public expense
 qiǎo lì míng mù to fabricate excuses (idiom) / to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account)
 tǎo qiǎo to act cleverly to get what one desires / to get the best at least expense
 yī tuán hé qì (idiom) to keep on the right side of everyone (often at the expense of principle)
 bào zhàng to render an account / to submit an expense account / to apply for reimbursement
 piān fèi to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others
 sǔn gōng féi sī to damage the public interest for personal profit (idiom) / personal profit at public expense / venal and selfish behavior
 jīng yíng fèi yòng business cost / business expense
 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
 piān kē to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard
便 tǎo pián yi to look for a bargain / to seek advantage / to try to gain at expense of others
 jì zuò (math.) to be written using the following notation / (accounting) to be recorded as (income, an expense etc)
 fèi yòng bào xiāo dān expense claim form
 zhòng xíng shì qīng nèi róng heavy on form, light on substance / to stress form at the expense of content
 xiàn jīn zhī chū cash expense
 fēi xiàn jīn zhī chū non-cash expense
  covered expense
  accrued liability / accrued expense
  eligible expense
 yù tí fèi yòng (accounting) accrued expense
 hǎo rén good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
 tú zhǎng (of a plant) to experience excessive vegetative growth (at the expense of flowering or fruiting)
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