spend
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
Inflected forms:
form: spends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spent
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pay out (money).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
gloss: To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
pos: verb
examples: I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
gloss: To squander.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: to spend an estate in gambling
gloss: To exhaust, to wear out.
pos: verb
examples: The violence of the waves was spent.
their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
gloss: To consume, to use up (time).
pos: verb
examples: My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
We spent the winter in the south of France.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.
The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
gloss: To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
dated
examples: The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
gloss: To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Energy spends in the using of it.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
gloss: To be diffused; to spread.
pos: verb
examples: The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
gloss: To break ground; to continue working.
pos: verb
gloss: Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
gloss: Expenditures; money or pocket money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Total January spends by year
The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
gloss: Discharged semen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Vaginal discharge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bespend
don't spend it all at once
don't spend it all in one place
forespend
forspend
heartspent
misspend
nonspending
outspend
overspend
respend
spaving
spendability
spendable
spendaholic
spend-all
spend a penny
spendathon
spendful
spend good money after bad
spendicitis
spending money
spendless
spend money like water
spendocracy
spendocrat
spendthrift
spend time
spendworthy
spendy
spent force
superspend
time spent laughing is time spent with the gods
tokens get spent
underspend
unspend
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