What does expend mean?

Definitions for expend
ɪkˈspɛndex·pend

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. use, expendverb

    use up, consume fully

    "The legislature expended its time on school questions"

  2. spend, expend, dropverb

    pay out

    "spend money"

Wiktionary

  1. expendverb

    To consume or exhaust some resource.

  2. expendverb

    To spend or disburse money.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Expendverb

    To lay out; to spend.

    Etymology: expendo, Latin.

    If my death might make this island happy,
    I would expend it with all willingness. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    The king of England wasted the French king’s country, and thereby caused him to expend such sums of money as exceeded the debt. John Hayward.

    The publick burthens, though they may be a good reason for our not expending so much in charity, yet will not justify us in giving nothing. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. expend

    In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost. In this case, money is the input that is gone in order to acquire the thing. This acquisition cost may be the sum of the cost of production as incurred by the original producer, and further costs of transaction as incurred by the acquirer over and above the price paid to the producer. Usually, the price also includes a mark-up for profit over the cost of production. More generalized in the field of economics, cost is a metric that is totaling up as a result of a process or as a differential for the result of a decision. Hence cost is the metric used in the standard modeling paradigm applied to economic processes. Costs (pl.) are often further described based on their timing or their applicability.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Expendverb

    to lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations

  2. Expendverb

    to be laid out, used, or consumed

  3. Expendverb

    to pay out or disburse money

  4. Etymology: [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Expend

    eks-pend′, v.t. to lay out: to employ or consume in any way: to spend.—ns. Expend′iture, act of expending or laying out: that which is expended: the process of using up: money spent; Expense′ (Shak.), expenditure: outlay: cost: (pl.) the cost of a lawsuit (Scots law).—adj. Expens′ive, causing or requiring much expense: extravagant.—adv. Expens′ively.—n. Expens′iveness.—Be at the expense of, to pay the cost of. [L. expendĕreex, out, pendĕre, pensum, to weigh.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of expend in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of expend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of expend in a Sentence

  1. Cate Campbell:

    Just needed to get through to the next round and that's exactly what I did. Didn't want to expend any more energy than you have to, i knew having Sarah next to me, if she was pushing me then I'd get through to the semi-finals no worries. She's a good pacing buddy.

  2. Supreme Court:

    We decline to expend additional judicial resources and further subject the victims in this case to additional trauma where the questions at hand present nothing more than an academic exercise.

  3. Azhar Sabri:

    Education is a type of money which surmount when expend.

  4. Joseph Margulies:

    I just think he is not willing to expend political capital to do it, it's not nearly as important to him as the Iran deal.

  5. Mohammad Javad Akbarein:

    In a country where music is outlawed and there is no outlet for young people to expend their energy, you have to have a replacement that is more official and without problems, the maddah are copying from rap, rock and dance music.

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