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Expense; cost. Chaucer.

EXPENSEFULL
Full of expense; costly; chargeable. Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n.
EXPENSE
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. 2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense
EXPENSELESS
Without cost or expense.
OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;