AT ANY EXPENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at any expense mean? 

• AT ANY EXPENSE (adverb)
  The adverb AT ANY EXPENSE has 1 sense:

1. regardless of the cost involved

  Familiarity information: AT ANY EXPENSE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT ANY EXPENSE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regardless of the cost involved

Synonyms:

at all costs; at any cost; at any expense

Context example:

he wanted to save her life at all cost

 Context examples 

After some conversation among these gentlemen, from which I might have supposed that there was nothing in the world to be legitimately taken into account but the supreme comfort of prisoners, at any expense, and nothing on the wide earth to be done outside prison-doors, we began our inspection.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The division of gratifying sensations ought not, in strict justice, to have been equal; for Sir Thomas was fully resolved to be the real and consistent patron of the selected child, and Mrs. Norris had not the least intention of being at any expense whatever in her maintenance.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)