It was a discretionary expense that most obviously considered worth it.

In budgeting, these common spending habits are identified as discretionary expenses.

If they're allotted for in your budget, discretionary expenses can be a reward for cautious spending.

So, what are your discretionary expenses?

That's a pretty big sum for a discretionary expense.

Companies may record such discretionary expense when profits are high because they can afford to take the hit to income.

It is a discretionary expense on the part of the organization.

Defense and non-defense discretionary expenses are essentially frozen in real dollar terms for the 2013-2022 period, growing at or below the rate of inflation.

Lotus also said it intended to cut back on overhead and to use tighter controls on discretionary expenses.

Under federal budget rules, money spent to hire tax collectors is treated as a discretionary expense, and Congress is cutting discretionary spending.