Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spend, pass(verb)

   pass time in a specific way

   "how are you spending your summer vacation?"

2. spend, expend, drop(verb)

   pay out

   "spend money"

3. spend(verb)

   spend completely

   "I spend my pocket money in two days"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spend(Noun)

   Amount spent (during a period), expenditure

   I'm sorry boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

2. spend(Noun)

   expenditures; money or pocket money.

3. spend(Noun)

   Discharged semen

4. spend(Verb)

   to pay out (money)

5. spend(Verb)

   to exhaust, to wear out

6. spend(Verb)

   to consume, to use up (time)

Origin: From spenden, from * (attested in compounds aspendan, forspendan), from spendanan, borrowed from expendere. Cognate with spenton (whence spenden), spenden, Old spenna.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spend(verb)

   to weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing

2. Spend(verb)

   to bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon

3. Spend(verb)

   to consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices

4. Spend(verb)

   to pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad

5. Spend(verb)

   to exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent

6. Spend(verb)

   to expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely

7. Spend(verb)

   to waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it

8. Spend(verb)

   to be diffused; to spread

9. Spend(verb)

   to break ground; to continue working

Origin: [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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1575

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #795

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'spend' in Verbs Frequency: #99

Anagrams for spend »

1. pends

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of spend in a Sentence

1. Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site:

   Spend and be spent.

2. George Herbert:

   Spend not on hopes.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   What you spend, you save.

4. Daniel Ives:

   They're a proxy for enterprise spend.

5. Terry Xu:

   I don't want to blindly spend anymore.

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