Cryptic crossword clue
Office outlay seen roughly in short book with extra note 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EXPENSES

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What does EXPENSES mean?

EXPENSES noun
  1. A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
  2. The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
  3. Loss.
EXPENSES verb
  1. To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.

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