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spend

verb (used with object)

to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.

to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.

to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.

to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.

to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.

verb (used without object)

to spend money, energy, time, etc.

Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.

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Origin:
1125–75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan to spend entirely or utterly) < West Germanic < Latin expendere to pay out, expend; compare German spenden

Related forms

an·ti·spend·ing, adjective

un·der·spend, verb, -spent, -spend·ing.

un·spend·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. Spend, disburse, expend, squander refer to paying out money. Spend is the general word: We spend more for living expenses now. Disburse implies expending from a specific source or sum to meet specific obligations, or paying in definite allotments: The treasurer has authority to disburse funds. Expend is more formal, and implies spending for some definite and (usually) sensible or worthy object: to expend most of one's salary on necessities. Squander suggests lavish, wasteful, or foolish expenditure: to squander a legacy. 2. use, apply, devote.

Antonyms
1. earn, keep.

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Some spend the night to get a choice time on another course.

The remaining students will spend less or more time depending on the various external factors.

Germany's saving glut allowed others to spend freely and to run up large debts.

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Some spend the night to get a choice time on another course.

The remaining students will spend less or more time depending on the various external factors.

Germany's saving glut allowed others to spend freely and to run up large debts.

The freshwater eel is one of the few fishes to spawn in the ocean and spend its adulthood in lakes, rivers, and estuaries.

Scientists spend too much time raising cash instead of doing experiments.

Birds you wouldn't normally see because they nest far to the north and spend the winter far to the south.

Spend some time exploring this deep, clear, glacier-carved lake.

We spend a lot of time and bandwidth using client apps and closed platforms.

Soon, though, it seems they won't have enough places to spend it.

Upping the number of days students spend in school doesn't necessarily mean that students will do better.

So our second favourite solution would be for the corporate sector to spend more and the government to spend less.

Herds spend the summer in the northern part of their range.

If you spend time worrying about your electric can opener, you have other issues.

The literature on the war is so vast you could spend a lifetime reading really good books about it.

Not everyone needs to spend a couple of weeks earning their sea legs to feel at home.

Car companies spend a lot of time talking to young people.

We do not spend enough time focusing on our actual economic problems.

Many departments invite guest speakers to give a talk and spend a day or two visiting as part of a seminar series.

But states have not been held accountable for how they spend this money.

To get this kind of photograph, you need to spend time with people and follow along with them.

People spend billions of dollars every year to combat this common affliction.

One study suggests that parents spend twice as much time behind the wheel during the week as they do with their children.

Instead of having a traditional bridal shower, she wanted to spend the day serving our community.

Children also spend less time outdoors than they once did, she says.

Over time, however, the state managed to get waivers and found other ways to spend the money on different projects.

They could also spend more of their salary budgets on younger faculty, bringing some fresh blood into the community.

They will spend less on loud displays of wealth, from diamond-studded tiaras to yachts too big to moor.

And it has pledged to spend two percent of its national income on renewable energy deployment in the country.

According to an old adage, you¿ve got to spend money to make money.

People spend weeks trying to come up with the right words.

Make fresh air viewing a new way to spend some downtime.

We spend a large percentage of our lives at the office, engaged in the drudgery of work.

I'd spend a semester there, given the chance, regardless of the nature of the department.

And if consumers expect higher future taxes in order to finance new government borrowing, they could spend less today.

Learn as much as you can about the animal you want to photograph and spend time with it before you take any pictures.

Marine mammals such as whales and dolphins spend their entire lives at sea.

And they can spend more time foraging out in the open, potentially giving them access to better or more food.

Locals often spend entire afternoons in his restaurant, and dinner sometimes evolves into a polka-dancing soiree.

Its hinge gets tougher to prize open the more you spend.

It also produces far too many ideas: managers have to spend weeks sorting through the chaff to find a few grains of wheat.

In the sands below, bright, iridescent scarab beetles spend their days harvesting dung from animals such as dama gazelles.

Because a new study shows that cave-dwelling fish spend more time awake than their counterparts at the sunny surface.

The far larger alpha males, on the other hand, spend the breeding season fighting to guard their females.

Cookies will bake more evenly if they spend equal time on the top and bottom racks of the oven.

I've never really understood the reluctance many people have to spend a bit of money on a good case for their iPhones.

Spend less time packing and more time exploring, thanks to our handheld digital luggage scale.

By the way, lions don't spend a lot of time eating, either.

He would spend every moment on the beach if he could.

After that, they can spend a dime for the perpetual right to listen to a streaming version.

Please spend your bathroom time commenting on other blogs.

Just scan our list and spend a little time scouting varieties in nurseries and public rose gardens.

We spend a lot of time to think of ways to do things differently.

They also don't spend much time in high-intensity physical exercise.

More living space can be hard to find on a small lot, especially if you don't want to spend big bucks to remodel the house.

Most people spend a major chunk of their waking hours at work, where often the boss looms large.

The cabin's cookhouse is where everyone gathers to eat and spend time together.

The islands will also cut the time that purse-seiners can spend fishing in their territorial waters by nearly a third.

It's a minimalist autumn dinner that leaves me free to spend the rest of the evening out of the kitchen.

But then you realize how weedy the soil is, and you spend much more time than you'd budgeted removing every weed from the bed.

Spend resources on improving the soil to save on weeding later.

First decide where you want to spend your time outdoors.

But spend enough time tiptoeing through the tulips and you'll need a real meal.

But the longer you spend in contemplation of its immensity, the more elusive it becomes.

It ends up being a great place to spend a sunny morning.

Spend your days under a palapa with a margarita in hand and a sweetheart by your side.

We hear kids aren't cheap, and they stay that way, so she didn't want to spend a lot.

Throw them on a plate or in a bowl and spend more time relaxing than preparing your food.

The government needs to spend now, while the economy is depressed, and save later.

He also makes a convincing case for charities to spend far more on advertising, perhaps even selling shares to pay for it.

They spend decades in rivers and lakes, then cross oceans and spawn in secret.

Spend a day on the water in this town full of awe-inspiring lakes, rivers, and hot springs.

Given the current economic conditions, some teams must sell to survive while others must spend to do the same.

Colleges spend millions on playing host to presidential debates.

The country could usefully spend several hundred billion dollars a year on such investments, for years to come.

After the floods, they spend more time on the ground.

How you spend has a greater effect on your happiness than how much you spend, researchers say.

Yet no one in their organization is likely as acutely aware of the fact that you often must spend money to bring more in.

Almost all other countries save a handful spend the bulk of their defense budgets buying weapons.

As a result, the money you spend helps local people earn a living and preserve the place's authenticity.

For instance, a harried doctor misdiagnoses a patient because he cannot spend more than five minutes examining her.

Bosses who work longer hours, by contrast, spend more of them meeting their own employees.

They spend nearly all of their time in trees, where they eat eucalyptus leaves.

Meanwhile at the agencies, the urgency to spend could take precedence over monitoring.

Daddy would spend the day casting his net and fishing while us young' uns would crab with our homemade chicken neck bait lines.

It would be scandalous to spend that kind of money and still come up short.

My advice is to keep it short and don't spend too much time on it.

By displaying these, the children hoped to persuade legislators to spend more money on the state's schools.

Caribou migrate from the tundra in the fall and spend winters in this ecoregion.

For many of us who live far from our own parents, it's hard for our kids to spend time with their grandparents.

Short, because committee members don't want to spend hours reading stuff that honestly isn't that.

Despite their zeal for the latest mobile phones, users will spend less time making calls.

They live in colonies on rocky beaches, but will spend weeks at a.

One is when gamers can't tell the difference between a game and reality, and spend too much time gaming.

We don't have infinite dollars to spend on security.

Try to balance the time you spend in these activities with the time you need to spend to complete your degree program.

But the country continued to spend less than it earned because exporters squirrelled a chunk of their profits away.

The researchers are uncertain as to why the loggerheads spend so much time gulping for air at the surface.

It's a phenomenal place to spend as much time as possible on a bike.

Despite the time and money many colleges spend to improve their graduation rates.

With their economies healthier and their government budgets moving into the black, they must decide how to spend the surpluses.

They spend a lot of time sunning on rocks, but they also dive deep.

Too high a temperature and we'd spend all our time taking in fuel to burn.

Meanwhile, as sea level rise approaches two feet, the barriers might simply spend more time closed.

But if you were, you would soon be able to spend that money on.

Still, the town itself has grown substantially and it would probably be a pleasant enough place to spend a couple of years.

They need people to spend to lift the economy out of recession.

Labord's chameleons spend eight to nine months inside the egg.

What's behind the die off is still a mystery, but one researcher plans to spend this summer gathering clues.

It has helped determine whether people are more likely to spend money when they are sad.

After work, they spend their hard-earned simoleons on gadgets.

Minimizing the time you spend with your new child and.

She lives with her parents, which frees all the more money to spend on luxuries.

Gardening clubs might attract upwardly mobile professionals who would rather spend their commute time growing their meals.

It starts with our dedicated keepers that spend their days working directly with these animals.

She'll spend the rest of the morning gathering greenery to make her specialty:.

Adelie penguins spend hours, and even days, on feeding trips.

And compliance officers should not spend valuable time wading through coaches' phone records.

The community's income-managed women, she reckons, have more money to spend on their children's welfare.

Both creatures spend much of their lives in the ocean's mesopelagic zone.

The scientists spend hours explaining their research and findings to our reporters and editors.

It looks terrified and exhilarated as, for the first time, it feels the medium in which it will spend almost all of its life.

However, every hour you spend obsessing over your ex, is an hour you could be working on your research or teaching.

We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper.

And with bulk rates, the more a junk-mailer sends, the less they spend.

And say you were offered a choice: you could either spend those years behind bars, or you could get ten lashes.

Make camp amid ponderosa pines and spend the next hours exploring the slopes, lounging, and fishing for trout.

Remember it's not how much you make, but how much you spend.

Maya women spend six months weaving together the beautiful colors and patterns of their cotton huipils, or.

Yet, these parents will have to spend their money to pay for today's medical care for someone who is not.

Both sides will spend the coming weeks trying to win over shareholders to their points of view.

Spend time talking with the people involved and you'll find that your photographs become more interesting.

It is a silly waste of money, better to spend it helping people directly.

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World English Dictionary

spend (spɛnd)

—vb , spends, spending, spent
1.	to pay out (money, wealth, etc)
2.	(tr) to concentrate (time, effort, thought, etc) upon an object, activity, etc
3.	(tr) to pass (time) in a specific way, activity, place, etc
4.	(tr) to use up completely: the hurricane spent its force
5.	(tr) to give up (one's blood, life, etc) in a cause
6.	obsolete (intr) to be used up or exhausted
7.	informal (Brit) spend a penny to urinate

—n
8.	an amount of money spent, esp regularly, or allocated to be spent

[Old English spendan, from Latin expendere; influenced also by Old French despendre to spend, from Latin dispendere; see expend, dispense]

'spendable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

spend

"to pay out or away" (money or wealth), O.E. -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from L. expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Gmc. borrowing (cf. O.H.G. spendon, Ger., M.Du. spenden, O.N. spenna). In ref. to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300.

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Idioms & Phrases

spend

see pocket (spending) money.

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