Expense and Use

Expense

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

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Use and expense are semantically related. in cost topic. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a noun "Expense".

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

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

similar	similar expense	similar use
obvious	obvious expense	obvious use
actual	actual expense	actual use
great	great expense	great use
Other adjectives: potential, personal, possible.

Cast from Hit Points: If your Weapon or Spell scores aren't sufficient to use a skill or cast a spell, you have the possibility to use said skill or spell, at the expense of your Life Points.

Source: Video Game / SaGa Frontier 2
Doesn't matter how long their spells take to cast, they do an upwards of at least 700% of their spellpower, and even if it does cost a lot of MP, at this point they're able to use a skill that converts a portion of their HP into MP, as opposed to healers healing HP at the expense of MP.

Source: Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards
Besides Basic Naruto, the main avatar shown in use is the Jester which increases a lot of skills at the expense of needing to wear themed clothing.

Source: Sudden Game Interface

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