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   Spend

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   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

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   What does it mean when you spend money?

   • When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want . By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money. [VERB noun] Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products. [VERB noun verb-ing] Juventus have spent £23m on new players. [V amount/n + on] The survey may cost at least £100 but is money well spent. [VERB-ed]

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   What is a word for spending?

   • , spent, spend·ing. Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted. obsolete. spend a pennyinformal. see pocket (spending) money. Spend, disburse, expend, squander refer to paying out money. Spend is the general word: We spend more for living expenses now.

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   What is spend verb?

   • to stay with someone for a night My daughter's spending the night with a friend. Definition of spend verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   What is the difference between spend and spent?

   • Spend is the present tense. So it is something you are doing now, at present. Spent is the past tense. So it is something you have done, in the past. You can spend money on clothes. You spent money yesterday on clothes.

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   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.

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   Definitions of spend. verb. pass time in a specific way. “how are you spending your summer vacation?” synonyms: pass. see more. verb. pay out. “ spend money” synonyms: drop, expend. see more. verb. spend completely. “I spend my pocket money in two days” see more. Pronunciation. US. /spɛnd/ UK. /spɛnd/ Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Spend."

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   1. to stay with someone for a night My daughter's spending the night with a friend. 2. (also spend the night together) to stay with someone for a night and have sex with them. See spend in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: spend.

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