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expenses: noun. 1: charges incurred by an employee in the performance of work. 2: (informal): money allotted for payment of such charges. (Etymology: from Anglo-Norman, from Latin (pecnia) expensa (money) paid out.) - American Heritage Dictionary.
I COULD have gone with chav (Estuary English for ned) this week but that seemed a bit of a cheat. It was widely quoted as the word of the year, cited in Susie Dent's new listing of evocative words of the 20th century. I thought the book was also a bit of a cheat. Sure, Ms Dent found words like mobile phone extant in 1945, but only about three people noticed at the time. But for a word to be singled out as emblematic requires either it was the buzz-word of the particular era, or that, in retrospect, it defined what was going on that year. For 1945, atom bomb covers all the bases.See the full content of this document
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Word of the Week: Expenses
So my word of the last seven days has to be "expenses". Mind you...
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