Noun

• S: (n) operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items (the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes)
• domain category
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) expense, disbursal, disbursement (amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures))
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) business expense, trade expense (ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in a taxpayer's business or trade)
• S: (n) organization expense (the cost (over a period of five years) of organizing a new corporation or partnership)
• S: (n) promotional expense (the cost of promoting a product)
• S: (n) interest expense (interest paid on loans)
• S: (n) lobbying expense (expenses incurred in promoting or evaluating legislation) "many lobbying expenses are deductible by a taxpayer"
• S: (n) medical expense (amount spent for diagnosis or treatment or prevention of medical problems)
• S: (n) non-cash expense (an expense (such as depreciation) that is not paid for in cash)
• S: (n) depreciation, wear and tear (decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use)
• S: (n) straight-line method, straight-line method of depreciation ((accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life)
• S: (n) write-off, write-down ((accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset)
• S: (n) tax write-off, tax deduction, deduction (a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket)
• S: (n) tax benefit, tax break (a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity)
• S: (n) business deduction (tax write-off for expenses of doing business)
• S: (n) entertainment deduction (deduction allowed for some (limited) kinds of entertainment for business purposes)
• S: (n) exemption (a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)) "additional exemptions are allowed for each dependent"
• S: (n) moving expense (the cost of moving your residence from one location to another)
• S: (n) operating expense, operating cost, overhead, budget items (the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes)
• S: (n) personal expense (the cost of personal or family living) "some personal expenses are tax deductible"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• part holonym