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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To SPENDverb
Etymology: spendan , Saxon; spendere, Italian.
Our cannons malice vainly shall be spent
Against th’ invulnerable clouds. William Shakespeare.I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. 2 Cor. xii. 15.
There is oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spendeth it up. Prov. xxi. 20.
We must exasperate
Th’ almighty Victor to spend all his rage. John Milton.Thus labour could at first begin a title of property in the common things of nature, and spending it upon our uses bound it. John Locke.
Money is brought into England by nothing but spending here less of foreign commodities than what we carry to market can pay for. John Locke.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? Is. lv. 2.
Eleutherius, perceiving that he was unwilling to spend any more time upon the debate, thought not fit to make any mention to him of the proposed opinion. Boyle.
Coward dogs
Most spend their mouths, when what they seem to threaten
Runs far before them. William Shakespeare, Henry V.They bend their bows, they whirl their slings around;
Heaps of spent arrows fall, and strew the ground. Dryden.The whole of our reflections terminate in this, what course we are to take to pass our time; some to get, and others to spend their estates. William Wake.
When we can intreat an hour to serve,
Would spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job xxi. 13.
He spends his life with his wife, and remembereth neither father nor mother. 1 Esdr. iv. 21.
When he was of riper years, for his farther accomplishment, he spent a considerable part of his time in travelling. Alexander Pope.
In those pastoral pastimes a great many days were spent, to follow their flying predecessors. Philip Sidney.
The waves ascended and descended, ’till their violence being spent by degrees, they settled at last. Thomas Burnet, Theo. of the Earth.
The winds are rais’d, the storm blows high;
Be it your care, my friends, to keep it up
In its full fury, and direct it right,
’Till it has spent itself on Cato’s head. Joseph Addison, Cato.Nothing but only the hope of spoil did relieve them, having scarce clothes to cover their nakedness, and their bodies spent with long labour and thirst. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.
Or come your shipping in our ports to lay,
Spent and disabled in so long a way? John Dryden, Æn.Our walls are thinly mann’d, our best men slain;
The rest, an heartless number, spent with watching,
And harrass’d out with duty. Dryden.Some spent with toil, some with despair oppress’d,
Leap’d headlong from the heights, the flames consum’d the rest. John Dryden, Æn.Thou oft hast seen me
Wrestling with vice and faction; now thou see’st me
Spent, overpower’d, despairing of success. Joseph Addison, Cato.To Spendverb
Henceforth your tongue must spend at lesser rate,
Than in its flames to wrap a nation’s fate. Dryden.He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South.
Butter spent as if it came from the richer soil. William Temple.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air; but in such concaves it is conserved and contracted. Francis Bacon.
Oh mountains, it may be, many dews fall, that spend before they come to the valleys. Francis Bacon.
There have been cups and an image of Jupiter made of wild vines; for the vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Francis Bacon.
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, 2020
spend
To buy or purchase.
They did spend some money purchasing some paint for the house.
Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020
spend
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
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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
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
She just walked down the stairs... and I was just there with the ring, and I was shaking and I was just like, Ive loved you for so long and I just cant see Biebers YouTube docu-series being with anybody else. I love you so much and I want to spend the rest of my life with you, will you marry me ?
For survival and keeping up with market trends, companies do have to look at what their most profitable lines of business are and where they should spend most of their time and focus, competition is fierce. Sometimes you have to break it down to build it back up.
We want to make sure that kids are safe and that if there is money that schools need to spend to safely have people in classrooms, social distance, spread things out, change hours, these are all the things we're looking at.
I've studied this race closely and I think J.D. is the most likely to take out the weak, but dangerous, Democrat opponent -- dangerous because Some Trump aides will have so much money to 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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