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单词 expence
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expence

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Noun

expence (countable and uncountable, plural expences)

  1. Obsolete spelling of expense
    • a. 1689, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference between Neighbors
      Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
    • c. 1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick (1690) Chapter VII
      That one tenth part of the whole Expence, of the King of England's Subjects, is sufficient to maintain ten thousand Foot, forty thousand Horse, and forty thousand Men at Sea; and defray all other Charges of the Government both Ordinary and Extraordinary, if the same were regularly Taxed, and Raised. (William Petty 1676 - Political Arithmetick; edition 1899, p. 305)
    • 1747, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, p. iii
      A Frenchman, in his own Country, would dress a fine Dinner of twenty Dishes, and all genteel and pretty, for the Expence he will put an English Lord to for dressing one Dish. But then there is the little petty Profit. [...] So much is the blind Folly of this Age, that they would rather be impos'd on by a French Booby, than give Encouragement to a good English Cook!
    • 1763, [unknown translator], Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana, BiblioBazaar LLC, →ISBN (2006), page 88,
      I know it is no easy matter so to deepen or hollow the channel of a bar, that it may never after need clearing, and that the expences run high: but my zeal for promoting the advantage of this colony having prompted me to make reflections on those passes, or entrances of the Missisippi,[sic] and being perfectly well acquainted both with the country and the nature of the soil, I dare flatter myself, I may be able to accomplish it, to the great benefit of the province, and acquit myself therein with honour, at a small charge, and in a manner not to need repetition.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume I, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], OCLC 20599507, page 134:
      As to an additional servant, the expence would be a trifle; []
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