expense vs spending

expense

noun
  • A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds. 

  • The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated. 

verb
  • To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works. 

spending

noun
  • An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent. 

How often have the words expense and spending occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )