at vast expense

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• at vast expense — at great/​vast/​considerable expense phrase spending a lot of money At vast expense, he flew the entire family to Argentina. Thesaurus: prices and costssynonym types of prices and describing prices and costshyponym Main entry: expense …   Useful english dictionary

• expense — ex|pense [ ık spens ] noun *** 1. ) count an amount of money you spend in order to buy or do something: Rent is our biggest expense. You can claim part of your telephone bill as a business expense. traveling/medical/legal expenses a factory s… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• expense — I UK [ɪkˈspens] / US noun Word forms expense : singular expense plural expenses *** 1) [countable] UK [ɪkˈspens] / US an amount of money that you spend in order to buy or do something Rent is our biggest expense. You can claim part of your… …   English dictionary

• vast — adjective 1 extremely large: vast areas of rainforest | vast expense: A huge palace was constructed at vast public expense. | in vast numbers: The refugees came across the border in vast numbers. 2 the vast majority/bulk of used when you want to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• expense — [[t]ɪkspe̱ns[/t]] ♦♦♦ expenses 1) N VAR Expense is the money that something costs you or that you need to spend in order to do something. He s bought a specially big TV at vast expense so that everyone can see properly... To avoid extra expense… …   English dictionary

• expense — ex|pense W2S3 [ıkˈspens] n 1.) [U and C] the amount of money that you spend on something legal/medical/living/travel etc expenses (=the money that you spend for a particular purpose) ▪ He borrowed £150,000 and used the money for legal expenses.… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• expense — noun 1 cost/money spent on sth ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enormous, great, huge, significant, vast ▪ added, additional, extra …   Collocations dictionary

• vast — adj. Vast is used with these nouns: ↑amount, ↑archive, ↑area, ↑army, ↑array, ↑assortment, ↑audience, ↑auditorium, ↑bank, ↑body, ↑bog, ↑bulk, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• at considerable expense — at great/​vast/​considerable expense phrase spending a lot of money At vast expense, he flew the entire family to Argentina. Thesaurus: prices and costssynonym types of prices and describing prices and costshyponym Main entry: expense …   Useful english dictionary

• at great expense — at great/​vast/​considerable expense phrase spending a lot of money At vast expense, he flew the entire family to Argentina. Thesaurus: prices and costssynonym types of prices and describing prices and costshyponym Main entry: expense …   Useful english dictionary

• INQUISITION — INQUISITION, special permanent tribunal of the medieval Catholic Church, established to investigate and combat heresy. The Early Institution Although the Inquisition was established by Pope gregory ix , it owed its name to the procedure… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism