According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.
EXPENSED
Verb
expensed
simple past tense and past participle of expense
Source: Wiktionary
EXPENSE
Ex*pense", n. Etym: [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.
2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time. Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham.
3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak. And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser. Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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