unnecessary expense

The army was now seen as both an unnecessary expense and a political threat.

This can save time, worry and unnecessary expense for your family.

I do not want to put the Company to unnecessary expense by wasting any more time.

Accounting differences between states in the Community provide a further unnecessary expense.

Except for the whales, which they consider an unnecessary expense.

My visit here has been an unnecessary expense for you."

He had come to believe that too many health care services were being provided in hospitals, at unnecessary expense.

In 1433, the Chinese government decided that the cost of a navy was an unnecessary expense.

"We are not spending our surplus on unnecessary expenses," he said.

That's a violation of policy, and an unnecessary expense to boot.

But I'm just too old fashioned to be bothered to pay the unnecessary expense.

Parking where you have done seems a rather unnecessary expense, doesn't it?

At a time when the young Queen was trying to pay off her father's debts, she saw this as unnecessary expense.

He called the idea flawed and said the commission studying the matter was an unnecessary expense.

At the moment private medical insurance is in recession, presumably because companies see it as a unnecessary expense.

But the strategy demands that unnecessary expenses be identified and eliminated.

It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes.

I do not complain about that so far as he is concerned because no doubt it would be an additional and unnecessary expense for him.

Lane said, "A man's entitled to save himself an unnecessary expense."

Caravans carried tents, after all, and did not look for unnecessary expense.

Neither side disputes this 12-year problem is costing the taxpayer unnecessary expense.

Some university bureaucrat said it was an unnecessary expense.

He proceeded to cut unnecessary expenses while trying to keep the province loyal to Britain.

Thus, purchasing the large canoe was an unnecessary expense.

He sat down wearily and answered, "Does a man have to be in trouble to want to cut out unnecessary expenses?"