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expense

 
 
/ɪkˈspens/ noun

Translation

[C, U] the money that you spend on something
masraf
You have to pay your own medical expenses. He eventually found her the car she wanted, at great expense (= it cost him a lot of money).51421
at the expense of sth If you do one thing at the expense of another, doing the first thing harms the second thing.
pahasına
He spent a lot of time at work, at the expense of his marriage.1973
at sb's expense If you do something at someone's expense, they pay for it.
...nın/nin hesabına
We went on holiday at my father's expense.1421
in order to make someone look stupid
birini aptal yerine koyarak/salak muamelesi yapan
Stop making jokes at my expense.1017
(Definition of expense noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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