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"expenses" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often costs (5 letters).
Definitions
Costs or amounts spent.
Used in a sentence
“living expenses”
“business expenses”
“cover expenses”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Money outlays”8 letters
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