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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlaynoun

    the act of spending or disbursing money

  2. outgo, spending, expenditure, outlaynoun

    money paid out; an amount spent

Wikipedia

  1. spending

    Consumption is the act of using resources to satisfy current needs and wants. It is seen in contrast to investing, which is spending for acquisition of future income. Consumption is a major concept in economics and is also studied in many other social sciences. Different schools of economists define consumption differently. According to mainstream economists, only the final purchase of newly produced goods and services by individuals for immediate use constitutes consumption, while other types of expenditure — in particular, fixed investment, intermediate consumption, and government spending — are placed in separate categories (see consumer choice). Other economists define consumption much more broadly, as the aggregate of all economic activity that does not entail the design, production and marketing of goods and services (e.g. the selection, adoption, use, disposal and recycling of goods and services).Economists are particularly interested in the relationship between consumption and income, as modelled with the consumption function. A similar realist structural view can be found in consumption theory, which views the Fisherian intertemporal choice framework as the real structure of the consumption function. Unlike the passive strategy of structure embodied in inductive structural realism, economists define structure in terms of its invariance under intervention.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spending

    of Spend

  2. Spendingnoun

    the act of expending; expenditure

Editors Contribution

  1. spendingverb

    Verb form of the word spend.

    The unity government spending was in line with the forecasted spending.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 3, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'spending' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2840

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'spending' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2192

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'spending' in Nouns Frequency: #1196

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spending in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spending in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of spending in a Sentence

  1. Michael Gural-Maiello:

    I do n’t think governments really have a place in telling parents how their children should be spending their time, china has a rotten record in technology in general. I ’d be far more worried about my son using apps that originate in China that collect data than I am about him playing Mario Kart.

  2. Jeffrey Roach:

    We do expect a slowdown in consumer spending as inflation and uncertainties weigh heavily on sentiment.

  3. Dynasty Star Willie Robertson:

    A lot of people come down and visit. They want to come to the warehouse and take a picture and then they will go in and spend money… 2013 for us was the high mark so now we’ve seen where it’s leveled off and still there is a lot of people spending. In fact, even when the economy is down we’ve noticed that hunting stuff, it doesn’t miss a lick.

  4. George Ratiu:

    With a Federal Reserve committed to bringing inflation down, investors expect business investments and consumer spending to pull back, however, with most Americans still employed and seeing modest pay gains, the pullback in spending has yet to meaningfully materialize.

  5. Ryan Sweet:

    U.S. manufacturing should fare reasonably well this winter as businesses need to restock inventories and the shift in consumer spending away from services to goods helps manufacturers.

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