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application
Noun
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An application is a request for something. Often it is a paper form that you have to fill out to ask for something.
She filled out her applications for college and hoped she would hear soon whether she was accepted to any schools.
I have to go to the bank today to fill out an application for a loan.
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An application is the way something is used.
The application of the new laws made things much more fair in the country.
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If something has an application, it can be used.
She liked studying Latin in college, but found that a degree in Latin had few applications in the real world.
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An application is a computer program.
He told me I would need a special application to make my new printer work with my old computer.
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Application is putting something onto something else, like a surface.
Kathleen was so light-skinned that she needed many applications of sunscreen each time she was at the beach to keep from getting sunburned.
The doctor said: "Application of this medicine to your cut will make it heal faster."
expense
Noun
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An expense is something for which you spend money.
Food is a huge expense for many people around the world.
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An expense is an amount of money that you spend.
If your income is less than your expenses, you have a serious problem.
The company paid all of his expenses when he was in Shanghai.
The building was repaired at great expense.
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If you do mathx/math at the expense of mathy/math, mathx/math hurts mathy/math because it makes mathy/math have less money, less time, less social status, etc.
She often makes jokes at her own expense.
We have to decide whether safety at the expense of freedom is worth the cost.