SPEND
\spˈɛnd], \spˈɛnd], \s_p_ˈɛ_n_d]\
Definitions of SPEND
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"
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pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
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To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
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To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
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To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.
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To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.
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To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
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To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
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To be diffused; to spread.
By Oddity Software
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
By Noah Webster.
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To lay out, as money; expend; squander; to exhaust by using; as, his violence spent itself; consume.
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To incur expense; to waste away.
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Spent.
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Spending.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to consume: to waste: to pass, as time.
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To make expense: to be dissipated:-pr.p. spending; pa.t. and pa.p. spent.
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SPENDER.
By Daniel Lyons
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SPENDER.
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To pay out, as money, in making purchases.
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To squander; waste.
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To pass or employ, as time.
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To exhaust; use up.
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To pay out money.
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To waste or wear away.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To layout; to dispose of; to part with; to consume; to waste; to pass, as time; to exhaust.
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To make expense; to vanish; to be dissipated; to be consumed.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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