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expense account

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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exˈpense acˌcount noun [countable]  BECmoney that is available to someone who works for a company so that they can pay for meals, hotels etc when travelling or entertaining people for work 〔由公司支付食宿费等的〕费用账户 I have an expense account and spend about £10,000 a year on entertaining. 我有一个费用账户,一年大约花一万英镑招待客户。
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expense accountThe benefits considered least important were the amount of holiday and an expense account.See if you can put it on an expense account.So they can come with time off work and probably on an expense account, even to a far-flung location.Things have also changed for the employee who receives an expense account.You gain a whole new sense of financial responsibility the moment you leave the corporate expense account behind.They will hit the top earner, the energy-guzzler, the expense account holder, harder than anyone.
From Longman Business Dictionaryexpense accountexˈpense acˌcount [countable]ACCOUNTING a company account that an employee can use for money that they have to spend as part of their job, for example on hotels, meals etcI have an expense account and spend about £20,000 a year on entertaining clients. account
exˈpense acˌcount nounChineseSyllable
Business money who is Corpus someone to available that


expense account
exˈpense acˌcount noun [countable]
money that is available to someone who works for a company so that they can pay for meals, hotels etc when travelling or entertaining people for work:
    I have an expense account and spend about £10,000 a year on entertaining.


expense accountBrE /ɪkˈspens əkaʊnt/ 🔊NAmE /ɪkˈspens əkaʊnt/ 🔊 nounan arrangement by which money spent by sb while they are at work is later paid back to them by their employer; a record of money spent in this way 报销账目;费用账户