spend
Etymology
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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, borrowed from Latin expendere.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (whence German spenden), Middle Dutch - spenden ("to spend, dedicate"), Old Icelandic spenna.
Pronunciation- IPA: /spɛnd/
spend (spends, present participle spending; simple past and past participle spent)
- (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
- He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC ↗:
- 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, 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 […]
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- 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, 26 ↗:
- 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.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- To be diffused; to spread.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- French: dépenser
- German: ausgeben, spendieren
- Italian: spendere
- Portuguese: gastar
- Russian: тра́тить
- Spanish: gastar
- German: verbrauchen, erschöpfen, aufzehren (exalted)
- Portuguese: gastar
- Russian: тра́тить
- French: passer
- German: verbringen
- Italian: passare
- Portuguese: passar
- 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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