spend
IPA: spˈɛnd
noun
- Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
- (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- Discharged semen.
- Vaginal discharge.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money).
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- (dated) To squander.
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- (dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- To be diffused; to spread.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
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Examples of "spend" in Sentences
- We spend time in torpor.
- They spend the night in the forest.
- It is only the spending of the American people.
- She loves finery, so she spends too much money on it.
- Observers theorize that Americans are spending a lot of money.
- Lucile Ball used to spend her vacation at the Carefree Resort.
- We know you've got the money We just have to spend it bonehead
- The spending of money within the Controller's Department is not enough.
- Is there any fathomable reason that you should spend the money that you earn
- Then the fact that when people go to Walmart, they're going there to spend money, they're going there to transact business.
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