to whistle down the wind / to waste one's breath (idiom)
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travel expenses / fare / traveling allowance
tax / levy / duty
air freight (cost of air transport)
(slang) hard-earned wages (pun on 窩囊廢|窝囊废[])
management fee
signing bonus / sign-on bonus
business cost / business expense
maintenance costs
to renew a subscription
at one's own expense / self-funded
compensation
subscription (rate)
medical fees
legal fees / costs (of a lawsuit)
severance pay (Tw)
excessive consumption / spending beyond one's means
to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
military expenditure
military spending
transfer fee / signing bonus / sign-on bonus
outward freight (accountancy)
toll (fee for using a road)
severance pay
postage
extravagance and waste (idiom)
(telephony) long-distance call charge
corkage fee
corkage fee
bonding fee
surcharge
extra pay for hot weather
incidental costs / sundries / extras
to waste / to squander
key money / takeover fee paid to a previous tenant when assuming their lease or business (originally Cantonese)
(accounting) accrued expense
prepayment
road maintenance tax (China)
pay-per-click advertising
party membership dues
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27