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   Spend

   /spend/

   

   verb

   • 1. pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services: "the firm has spent $100,000 on hardware and software"
   • ▪ pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something: "the college spent $140 on each of its students" Similar pay outlay outexpenddisbursesquandergo throughrun throughwastefritter awaylavishinformal:fork outshell outdish outcough upblowsplash outsplurgelash outstump upblueknock downarchaic:springinformal:pony upOpposite savekeephoard
   • ▪ used to show the activity in which someone is engaged or the place where they are living over a period of time: "she spent a lot of time traveling" Similar passoccupyfilltake upwhile awayuse upput indevoteemploywaste
   • ▪ use or give out the whole of; exhaust: "she couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money" Similar use upconsumeexhaustdepletedrain

   noun

   • 1. an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time: informal "the average spend at the cafe is about $10 a head"

   Word Origin Old Englishspendan, from Latin expendere ‘pay out’; partly also a shortening of obsolete dispend, from Latin dispendere ‘pay out’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. spendable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 8

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