Definition of At any expense

1. Adverb. Regardless of the cost involved. "He wanted to save her life at all cost"

Exact synonyms: At All Costs, At Any Cost

Lexicographical Neighbors of At Any Expense

at a loss(p)
at a loss for words
at a low price
at a lower place
at a moment's notice
at a pinch
at a premium
at a rate of knots
at a stand
at a time
at all
at all costs
at all hours
at an equal rate
at any cost
at any expense (current term)
at any rate
at arm's length
at bat
at bats
at bay
at bay(p)
at best
at bottom
at call
at church every time the doors are open
at close range
at cost
at cross-purposes
at daggers drawn

Literary usage of At any expense

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff by Richard Watson (1818)
"the county of Cambridge, in which the main things insisted on were, the not suffering any candidate for the county to be at any expense, ..."

2. The Revised Statutes of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Rhode Island (1857)
"... upon complaint made by the overseer or overseers of the poor of any town who shall have been at any expense for the relief and support of any such ..."

3. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834)
"... any expense to the state.j New York is the only colony in the founding of which England can pretend to have been at any expense ..."

4. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1818)
"New York is the only colony in the founding of which England can pretend to have been at any expense; and that was only the charge ..."

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