Expens means money used to buy things or services. It is often about daily or work costs.
The monthly expens for food is high.
She paid expens for the bus ticket.
In business, expens means money spent and recorded for bills or costs.
The company's expens grew last year.
Expens must be tracked in accounting files.
Expens can mean something you lose or give up to get something else, like time, health, or money.
He improved his skills at great expens.
The team won, but at expens of health.
In old or formal English, expens means the money or charge for something.
All expens were paid by the king.
She bore the expens of travel alone.
Writers sometimes use expens to mean the cost or loss in a poetic or emotional way.
To gain love at such expens is bitter.
Her choice came at expens of her joy.
