to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding: Don't spend much time on it.
to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.: We spent a few days in Baltimore.
to use up, consume, or exhaust: The storm had spent its fury.
to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.
verb (used without object),spent,spend·ing.
to spend money, energy, time, etc.
Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.
Origin of spend
First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan “to spend entirely or utterly”), from West Germanic, from Latin expendere “to pay out, spend, expend” (see expend); compare German spenden
SYNONYMS FOR spend
2 use, apply, devote.
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ANTONYMS FOR spend
1 earn, keep.
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synonym study for spend
1. 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.Expend is more formal, and implies spending for some definite and (usually) sensible or worthy object: to expend most of one's salary on necessities.Squander suggests lavish, wasteful, or foolish expenditure: to squander a legacy.
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Last week, she spent hours on the phone with colleagues to check on the status of their intensive care units.
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I was tired of spending my evenings trying to understand the next day.
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Prosecutors wanted him to spend at least 10 years behind bars.
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He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
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Instead, I spend much of my time criticizing my fellow atheists.
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A diligent immigration commission with an appropriation to spend has little time to listen to Joseph.
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Now, I defy the most able Englishman to go to Switzerland and either to gain that income, or to spend it there.
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I think she must spend her life on the landing, listening for arrivals and departures.'
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I am glad you have come; I began to think I should have to spend the evening by myself, as Hinchley is busy with his uncle.
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British Dictionary definitions for spend
spend
/ (spɛnd) /
verbspends, spendingorspent
to pay out (money, wealth, etc)
(tr)to concentrate (time, effort, thought, etc) upon an object, activity, etc
(tr)to pass (time) in a specific way, activity, place, etc
(tr)to use up completelythe hurricane spent its force
(tr)to give up (one's blood, life, etc) in a cause
(intr)obsoleteto be used up or exhausted
spend a pennyBritishinformalto urinate
noun
an amount of money spent, esp regularly, or allocated to be spent
See also spends
Derived forms of spend
spendable, adjective
Word Origin for spend
Old English spendan, from Latin expendere; influenced also by Old French despendre to spend, from Latin dispendere; see expend, dispense