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
- Until very recently, it seems most conservatives understood that to spend is to tax.
- A. -- Yes, it's awfully funny and nice, makes our cunts what they call spend with pleasure.
- Salesmen and even bankers preached the doctrine that to spend is to enlarge the activity of business.
- Then the fact that when people go to Walmart, they're going there to spend money, they're going there to transact business.
- Don't make too big a fool of yourself, nor marry your tango teacher, but spend my million, Drusilla, _spend it_ -- and may God rest your soul!
- I don't really like the term spend back because it sounds like there is some kind of price competition to buy the consumers 'willingness to use our products.
- In polls that employ the term "spend" or "spending" in describing the additional stimulus, its support drops to an average of 44 percent, with 50 percent saying that deficit reduction is the higher priority:
- But we are to have the railroad to Mt. Jackson by Christmas, perhaps sooner; and then, if we can raise the wind, we can spend a portion of the winter in the city, and I hope you will find time to come up and _spend the day_ with me, as we will be near neighbors.
- When you think about the expression spend your life, you’ll come to a sobering realization: Your life is something that you actually do spend every day, just as surely as if you were pulling out your wallet and peeling off hours like dollar bills as payment for each day’s experiences and memories.