to "expense"

[James Harbeck]

Thanks, Mark. The examples you give could all also be replaced with
"put on expense account as," as in "put it on expense account as an
office expense" (as opposed to as a business development expense,
say), although I must admit "expense it as a company expense" seems a
touch redundant. Perhaps in these usages there's a sort of image of
its being entered into an expense account sheet -- i.e., that the act
of entering something on an expense account sheet is "expensing," and
one can speak of it generally or one can specify it -- some users
perhaps automatically thinking of it as something that must be
entered under a category, others not necessarily.

And since it's not "dictionary English," neither side can claim the
other is using it wrong!

James Harbeck.

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