Definitions for spend
spɛndspend

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

1. spend, passverb

   pass time in a specific way

   "how are you spending your summer vacation?"

2. spend, expend, dropverb

   pay out

   "spend money"

3. spendverb

   spend completely

   "I spend my pocket money in two days"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spendnoun

   Amount spent (during a period), expenditure

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

2. spendnoun

   expenditures; money or pocket money.

3. spendnoun

   Discharged semen

4. spendverb

   to pay out (money)

5. spendverb

   to exhaust, to wear out

6. spendverb

   to consume, to use up (time)

7. Etymology: 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. Spendverb

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

2. Spendverb

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

3. Spendverb

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

4. Spendverb

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

5. Spendverb

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

6. Spendverb

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

7. Spendverb

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

8. Spendverb

   to be diffused; to spread

9. Spendverb

   to break ground; to continue working

10. 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(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.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spend

   This term is sometimes used in military matters to express the consumption of anything; as, to spend all your ammunition.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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  

2. spend

   To buy or purchase.

   They did spend some money purchasing some paint for the house.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020  

3. spend

   To use time.

   We love to spend time together on the farm.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 28, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Use Up

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

How to pronounce spend?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say spend in sign language?

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. Anupam Jena:

   If you look at doctors who spend more in a given specialty, higher spending physicians get sued less often than low spending physicians.

2. Ken Dychtwald:

   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.

3. Philippe Jeandet:

   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,'.

4. Songklod Wongchai:

   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.

5. Alan Gottlieb:

   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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