What does spend mean?
Definitions for spend
spɛndspend
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word spend.
Princeton's WordNet
spend, passverb
pass time in a specific way
"how are you spending your summer vacation?"
spend, expend, dropverb
pay out
"spend money"
spendverb
spend completely
"I spend my pocket money in two days"
Wiktionary
spendnoun
Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
I'm sorry boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
spendnoun
expenditures; money or pocket money.
spendnoun
Discharged semen
spendverb
to pay out (money)
spendverb
to exhaust, to wear out
spendverb
to consume, to use up (time)
Etymology: From spenden, from * (attested in compounds aspendan, forspendan), from spendanan, borrowed from expendere. Cognate with spenton (whence spenden), spenden, Old spenna.
Webster Dictionary
Spendverb
to weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing
Spendverb
to bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon
Spendverb
to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices
Spendverb
to pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad
Spendverb
to exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent
Spendverb
to expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely
Spendverb
to waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it
Spendverb
to be diffused; to spread
Spendverb
to break ground; to continue working
Etymology: [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Spend
spend, v.t. to expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to consume: to waste: to pass, as time.—v.i. to make expense: to be lost, wasted, or dissipated: to emit milt, semen, &c.:—pr.p. spend′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. spent.—adj. Spen′dable, that may be spent.—ns. Spend′all, a spendthrift; Spen′der; Spen′ding; Spense=Spence (q.v.).—adj. Spent, exhausted: impotent: of fish, exhausted by spawning. [A.S. spendan—L. expendĕre or dispendĕre, to weigh out.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
spend
This term is sometimes used in military matters to express the consumption of anything; as, to spend all your ammunition.
Editors Contribution
spend
To share time with.
They loved to spend time with each other as they lived together and valued their lives and looked forward to their wedding whjch would happen earlier than planned.
Submitted by MaryC on February 22, 2020spend
To buy or purchase.
They did spend some money purchasing some paint for the house.
Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020spend
To use time.
We love to spend time together on the farm.
Submitted by MaryC on April 28, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1575
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #795
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Verbs Frequency: #99
Anagrams for spend »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of spend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of spend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of spend in a Sentence
If you look at doctors who spend more in a given specialty, higher spending physicians get sued less often than low spending physicians.
There will be breakthroughs in the next 15 or 20 years that will have to do with aging itself - actually stopping the biological clock, and I think that really rich people are going to get access to it, people who are willing to spend almost unlimited sums of money. Imagine a time when ten thousand really rich people get to live forever, or not have to get dementia.
I'm sure there are people that are ready to spend a lot of money to have the privilege of saying to their friends, 'I put on the table a bottle that has been aged 10 years at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea,'.
It's in line with global trends as major petrochemical producers shift from commodity-grade products to specialty grade, and that's why they need to spend more on research, but given the weak economic outlook and poor domestic consumption, I'm worried about demand because everyone needs to control costs. Prices of premium grade products are much higher than normal.
This kind of below-the-radar bureaucratic gun confiscation is a growing Second Amendment and property rights violation problem, particularly in strict gun control states like California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, people can't afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees to get back a $500 firearm.
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Translations for spend
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- يقضي, قضىArabic
- passar, gastarCatalan, Valencian
- trávitCzech
- ausgeben, verbringenGerman
- ξοδεύωGreek
- pasarSpanish
- viettää, loppu, kulut, käyttää, menot, kuluttaa, satsi, mälliFinnish
- passer, dépenserFrench
- caithIrish
- ख़र्च करनाHindi
- spensarIdo
- 過ごす, 消費Japanese
- 쓰다, 소비, 보내다Korean
- leisti, praleistiLithuanian
- bruke, lommepengerNorwegian
- gastos, jato, gasto, gastarPortuguese
- cheltuiRomanian
- истратить, проводить, провести, тратить, израсходовать, расходовать, потратитьRussian
- tratiti, тратити, проводити, provoditiSerbo-Croatian
- tillbringa, spendera, fickpengarSwedish
- செலவிடTamil
- harcamak, geçirmekTurkish
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