EXPENSE    費用費

MONEY used for a certain purpose.
COSTPRICECHARGEOUTLAYFEETARIFFLEVYPAYMENT
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for any expense of money, resources, or even effort, for a certain purpose, is fèi 費. 2. Yòng 用 refers generally to the expenses one incurs, particularly in connection with state or family economy. 3. Chū 出 (ant. rù 入 "income") refers specifically to monetary expenses, often in a somewhat theoretical context of "economics". 4. Zī 資 can occasionally refer to resources used in pursuit of an aim.
Modern Chinese Criteria
費用 費 用 用度 用費 花費 花項 用項 用款 支出 開支 開銷 花消 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Antonym
  • SALARYMONEY GIVEN to someone who WORKS for his/her WORK.
See also
  • EXPENSIVEPRICE MORE BIG IN-RELATION-TO the PRICE IMAGINED.
Hypernym
  • MONEY　STANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.72

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    EXPENSE

    sumptus refers to expense insofar as this diminishes wealth and capital.

    impensae refers to expense insofar as it serves to achieve an aim or to obtain an object.

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 144

    • Words (4 items)

    費  fèi OC: phɯds MC: phɨi 29 Attributions

    The standard word for any expense of money, resources, or even effort, for a certain purpose, is fèi 費.

      Syntactic words
    • nab.post-NN=subjectlost experienced by N; N's lost of propertyDS
    • nabactexpenditure; cost; expense; lavish use of resources
    • viinvolve large expediture
    • vtoNexpend, use up
    • vtoN.adVat the expense of
    用  yòng OC: k-loŋs MC: ji̯oŋ 14 Attributions

    Yòng 用 refers generally to the expenses one incurs, particularly in connection with state or family economy.

      Word relations
    • Object: 節/FRUGAL Jié 節 (ant. chǐ 侈"lavish use of resources") refers to the virtue of moderation in the use of things as it applies to specified areas and does not function an abstract philosophical concept of parsimony.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe use of resources, the making of expenses 節用 "be economical with expenses"
    出  chū OC: khljud MC: tɕhʷit 6 Attributions

    Chū 出 (ant. rù 入 "income") refers specifically to monetary expenses, often in a somewhat theoretical context of "economics".

      Syntactic words
    • nmexpense
    資  zī OC: sti MC: tsi 1 Attribution

    Zī 資 can occasionally refer to resources used in pursuit of an aim.

      Syntactic words
    • nexpenses???