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English word

expense

B2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ɪkˈspens/US /ɪkˈspens/
noun

the money that you spend on something

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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University
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Will you be clever at the expense of others or will you be kind?

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

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And uh, we also had, you know, a really tiny revenue stream, but we actually had more revenue than we had expenses, so, um, when we went and talked.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 386 · Pro

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