expend

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expend

early 15c., from L. expendere "pay out," from ex- "out" + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant). Related: Expended; expending.

Example sentences

And then, apparently, they will have liberated more capital to expend on more

reckless loans to ailing companies.

We are asked to expend pity and resentment towards society in the cause of a

common thief.

Cities in moderate climes fared better than those whose residents must expend

more energy to cool and heat their homes.

They do not see it as their moral obligation and expend considerable resources

to obfuscate the issues.

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expendable expenditure expense grab lavish outlay

Matching Quote

"I've thought about how, were we to suddenly receive the freedom about which we talk so much when we spar with one another, we would not know what to do with it at first. We would expend it on denouncing one another in the newspapers for spying, for love of the ruble, we would frighten society with protestations that we have no people, no science, no literature, nothing at all!"

-Anton Pavlovich Chekhov