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To spend is to use all of a resource, to focus your energy on something or to give someone money.

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An example of to spend is to run until you have no more energy.
An example of to spend is to use your time by reading.
An example of to spend is to give a retailer money to buy new clothes.

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See spend in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb spent, spending

to use up, exhaust, consume, or wear out: his fury was spent
to pay out (money); disburse
to give or devote (time, labor, thought, or effort) to some enterprise or for some purpose
to pass (a period of time): spending hours together
to waste; squander

Origin: ME spenden < OE spendan (in comp.) < ML spendere < L expendere: see expend

intransitive verb

to pay out or use up money, etc.
Obsolete to be or become consumed, wasted, etc.

Related Forms:

spendable adjective

See spend in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb spent spent (spĕnt), spend·ing, spends

verb, transitive

To use up or put out; expend: spent an hour exercising.
To pay out (money).
To wear out; exhaust: The storm finally spent itself.
To pass (time) in a specified manner or place: spent their vacation in Paris.
a. To throw away; squander: spent all their resources on futile projects.
b. To give up (one's time or efforts, for example) to a cause; sacrifice.

verb, intransitive

To pay out or expend money.
To be exhausted or consumed.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English spenden

Origin: , partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre, to expend; see expend)

Origin: and partly from Old French despendre, to weigh out; see dispense

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Related Forms:

spendˈa·ble adjective

spendˈer noun

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