spend
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English spenden, from Old English *spendan (attested in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-Germanic *spendaną, *spendōną (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). 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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)
- To pay out (money).
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- 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.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- To exhaust, to wear out.
- To consume, to use up (time).
- My sister usually spends her free time by going to nightclubs.
- (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- Francis Bacon
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- Energy spends in the using of it.
- Francis Bacon
- To be diffused; to spread.
- Francis Bacon
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
- Francis Bacon
- (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from spend (verb)
Translations[edit]
to pay out
to wear out, to exhaust
to consume, to use up
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Noun[edit]
spend (plural spends)
- Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
- (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
- 2011 February 1, Sedghi, Ami, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, The Guardian:
- Total January spends by year
- 2011, “Council spending over £500”, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, accessed on 2012-01-26:
- The spends have been made by our strategic partners ...
- 2011 February 1, Sedghi, Ami, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, The Guardian:
- Discharged semen
Translations[edit]
expenditures
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