Expense and Pay

Expense

Expense noun - A payment made in the course of achieving a result.

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Pay and expense are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pay" instead a noun "Expense".

Nearby Words: expend, expensive, expensively, expensed, expensing

Pay noun - The money paid regularly to a person for labor or services.

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Expense and pay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expense" instead a noun "Pay".

Nearby Words: payment, paid, paying, payable, payout

high	high expense	high pay
considerable	considerable expense	considerable pay
reasonable	reasonable expense	reasonable pay
small	small expense	small pay
Other adjectives: actual, large, big, great, terrible, decent, minimal, extra, significant.

One partial reason this doesn't happen, however, is that Sega would have to pay licensing fees for many of those characters and they don't feel it's worth the expense.

Source: Broken Base / Sonic the Hedgehog
Eric Bogle often pushes this stereotype about himself, usually at the expense of of other band members; such as suggesting that he doesn't pay them.

Source: Thrifty Scot
Sheldon offered to pay for the extra expense out of his own pocket, but Screen Gems advised him not to.

Source: Useful Notes / Switch to Color

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