extra expense

collocation in English

meaningsofextraandexpense

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extra
adjective
uk
/ˈek.strə/us
/ˈek.strə/
added to what ...
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expense
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspens/us
/ɪkˈspens/
the use of money, time, ...
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(Definition ofextraandexpensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofextra expense

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It would meanextraexpenseand extra buildings.
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Are the promoters, in their calculations for finance, taking into account theextraexpensein such construction?
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We cannot collect it from the man who has the ticket, he has already paid for it, and the club cannot bear theextraexpense.
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There must be something radically wrong to make it necessary at this juncture to acquire extra land and incurextraexpense.
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Some local authorities, we understand, may not even ask us to pay anyextraexpense.
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I am not suggesting that there should be any extra staff orextraexpense.
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Should we not encourage food processing plants to be dispersed throughout the regions, thus avoiding suchextraexpense?
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There isextraexpense, and sometimes great inconvenience.
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He said they did not want to putextraexpenseon the small farmer.
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Therefore, in that way there will beextraexpenseto the local authorities.
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They also have a large amount ofextraexpense.
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The uniforms are often of poor quality and that often means that the parents are involved inextraexpense.
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The shipowners, or most of them, now say that the rise of freights is due practically to theextraexpenseand delays at the docks.
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We had looked into that before he raised it, because we were anxious that the authorities should not haveextraexpenseput upon them.
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In other words, theextraexpensewill be largely passed back to the primary producer.
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That can involve a tremendousextraexpensefor students who have to attend sixth-form colleges or colleges of further education.
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This would involve a considerable amount of work, more office staff, andextraexpense.
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If blanket access is to be made available at all times, small landowners will be put to considerableextraexpenseand extra worry.
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In so far as this is a camel, it is a diminishing one, and theextraexpensecan only be trifling, in these days.
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So the only matters ofextraexpenseare housing.
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