私費
Meanings
1
private expense; personal funds; one's own expense
Refers to money paid from a private individual's own resources rather than from public funds, an organization, or an employer. Often used as 私費で, meaning “at one's own expense.”
She studied at a university overseas at her own expense.
Those materials were purchased by the researcher with personal funds.
Usage patterns
- 〈事〉に私費を投じるto put one's own money into (something)
He put his own money into the research.
- 私費を負担するto bear the cost oneself out of personal funds
It was decided that the trip's expenses would be covered from personal funds.
Expressions
- 私費でat one's own expense; privately funded