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verb

Spend v. t. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

1.

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. "Spend thou that in the town." "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?"

2.

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. "I... am never loath To spend my judgment."

3.

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

4.

To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. "We spend our years as a tale that is told."

5.

To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. "Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst."

Spend v. i. (past & past part. spent; pres. part. spending)

1.

To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. "He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning."

2.

To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air."

3.

To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes."

4.

(Mining) To break ground; to continue working.

noun

Spending n. The act of expending; expenditure.

Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. (Colloq.)

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"Spending" Quotes from Famous Books

... and at others on our own feet, we visited the greater portion of the islands. I often felt that had I been born among them, I should never have desired to leave their quiet shores, and more than once contemplated the probability of spending the remainder of my days there. I spoke my mind on the subject ...

— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston

... seeing he was held in suspense, and the season of the year spending for the ship to proceed on her voyage to some place, sent order to Mr John Burford, the chief mate, to take charge of the ship, and set sail to Porto Novo, from whence they came, and there to follow ...

— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe

... beside him, Philip having lingered to watch Petronella safely within the shelter of the gloomy walls of the Gate House. "She shall have her dower, that she may wed this gay Lord Culverhouse. My sweet sister shall be dowered, too, and in no danger of spending all her youth and sweetness shut up between those gloomy walls. Fortune will smile once more upon all those who have the blood of the Trevlyns and Wyverns in their veins. I believe in the old prediction. I believe that the treasure ...

— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... the risks of inheritance by hygienic measures, during their developmental period, strengthening in every way their physical and mental endowments. Even those well developed in this respect should husband his or her resources—always keeping a reserve fund by avoiding undue fatigue, spending plenty of time in sleep, taking care of the body, and arranging for intervals of rest that shall include change of scene ...

— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... good-looking Frenchman who came her way, we never get to be on very intimate terms with that organ. The construction of the story tends to break up the action and make its interest desultory. While we are spending a hundred odd pages at one time and fifty odd at another in Paris and Brittany we forget, very contentedly, about Oriel; and while we are in residence at Oxford we are practically cut off—no doubt, to our spiritual gain—from the things of France. The authors seem to belong to the solid old-fashioned ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 7, 1914 • Various

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