at the expense of

English

Alternative forms

at one's expense

Prepositional phrase

at the expense of

(finance) Paid for by an individual or group.
(by extension, idiomatic) At one's responsibility.
(figurative) In a way as to harm somebody or something; to the detriment of.
- 1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, page 3:
  Bengali, like other Aryan languages of India, has spread, and is still spreading, at the expense of the aboriginal tongues.
(figurative) Of a joke, deriding someone.

Translations

paid for by an individual or group

Arabic: عَلَى حِسَابِ (ʕalā ḥisābi), عَلَى نَفَقَةِ (ʕalā nafaqati)
Azerbaijani: hesabına
Galician: a conta de
Polish: kosztem
Portuguese: por conta de (pt)
Spanish: a expensas de, a costa de (es)
Swedish: på bekostnad av (sv)

in a way as to harm somebody or something

Arabic: عَلَى حِسَابِ (ʕalā ḥisābi)
Azerbaijani: hesabına, bahasına
French: au détriment de (fr)
Galician: a conta de
Old English: tō dare (+ genitive)
Polish: kosztem
Portuguese: à custa de, às custas de
Spanish: a costa de (es), a costo de, a cuenta de, a expensas de
Swedish: till priset av, på bekostnad av (sv)

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Czech: na úkor (cs)
Danish: på bekostning af (da)
Dutch: ten koste van
French: aux dépens de (fr), au préjudice de (fr), aux frais de, au détriment de (fr)
German: auf Kosten (de) (+ genitive)
Hungarian: rovására (hu)
Italian: a spese di (it)
Latvian: uz (kāda) rēķina (lv)

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