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单词 dispendium
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dispendiumn.

Etymology: Latin = cost, expense; also, loss, damage; < dispendĕre to dispend v.: a parallel form to compendium n. Compare Italian dispendio expense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: diˈspendium.
Obsolete.
Loss, waste; expenditure, expense.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun]
spendinga1430
use1440
consumptionc1522
abuse1539
spensec1547
abusinga1555
waste1569
expense1593
dispendium1648
expenditure1812
using-up1863
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > wrong expenditure (of time, money, etc.)
misspendingc1390
misdispense1450
misspense1591
misexpense1605
misexpendinga1644
dispendium1648
misexpenditure1795
1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 18 Is not Belt-money the dispendium of our possessions?
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Glouc. 356 This Gentleman in his Title page ingeniously wisheth that his Compendium might not prove Dispendium to the Reader thereof.
1699 J. Woodward in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 207 The less they [Plants] are in Bulk, the smaller the Quantity of the Fluid Mass in which they are set is drawn off; the Dispendium of it..being pretty nearly proportioned to the Bulk of the Plant.
1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner i. v. 42 The dispendium or expense of water was the less by 1/ 6.
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