spend
Use Spend in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
2.
to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.
3.
to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.
4.
to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.
5.
to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.
verb (used without object)
6.
to spend money, energy, time, etc.
7.
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
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, un·der·spent, un·der·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.
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.
1. earn, keep.
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| —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 | |
| '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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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Wonder how much time we're going to have to spend in that.
Individual countries will spend even more laying fiber-optic cables inland and connecting their networks to the submarine cable.
The problem with any kind of rocket is that you have to spend as much time accelerating as you spend decelerating.
It has high per student spend, but the minority students perform much worse than the white students.
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