Pronunciation
- IPA: /spɛnd/
spend (spends, present participle spending; past and past participle spent)
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
- (dated) To squander.
- to spend an estate in gambling
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- The violence of the waves was spent.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
- To consume, to use up (time).
- My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
- We spent the winter in the south of France.
- 1661, John Fell (bishop), The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond ↗
- 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 […]
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, gbooks :
- 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.
- (dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- Energy spends in the using of it.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- To be diffused; to spread.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- French: dépenser
- German: ausgeben, spendieren
- Italian: spendere
- Portuguese: gastar
- Russian: тра́тить
- Spanish: gastar
- Portuguese: gastar
- Russian: тра́тить
- French: passer
- German: verbringen
- Italian: passare
- Portuguese: gastar
- Russian: проводи́ть
- Spanish: pasar
spend
- Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
- (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- Discharged semen.
- Vaginal discharge.
- Portuguese: gastos
- Portuguese: jato
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