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Expending   /ˌɛkspˈɛndɪŋ/   Listen
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Expend  v. t.  (past & past part. expended; pres. part. expending)  To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. "If my death might make this island happy... I would expend it with all willingness."


Expend  v. i.  
1.
To be laid out, used, or consumed.
2.
To pay out or disburse money. "They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.".





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"Expending" Quotes from Famous Books



... ploughing up the surface, but they have not yet been introduced into the Argentine in large numbers. Other machines dig holes for fence posts at the rate of fifty holes per hour, and they can be so accurately gauged that the posts may be firmly fixed without expending much labour ...
— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various
... power, which soon fell into decrepitude and decay; but she exacted in return implicit obedience to herself. She claimed and enforced a prerogative of taxing them at her discretion; and proudly refused to be accountable for her mode of expending their supplies. Remonstrance against her assessments was treated as factious disloyalty; and refusal to pay was promptly punished as revolt. Permitting and encouraging her subject allies to furnish all their contingents ...
— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.
... was still sleeping—how could he do it, I wondered—I set to work to make up the accounts of the expedition to date. It had already cost L1,423. Just fancy expending L1,423 in order to be tied to a post and shot to death with arrows. And all to get a rare orchid! Oh! I reflected to myself, if by some marvel I should escape, or if I should live again in any land where these particular flowers flourish, I ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... be thrown away because they are dirty. Mop-rags, lamp-rags, &c. should be washed, dried, and put in the rag-bag. There is no need of expending soap upon them: boil them out in dirty suds, after you have ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child
... reflection of her idiosyncrasies the attentive reader constructs a sufficiently vivid portrait. She was the old middle-class Frenchwoman whom he has so often seen—devoted, active, meddlesome, parsimonious, exacting veneration, and expending zeal. Honore tells ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various


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