Spend Definition

spĕnd
spending, spends, spent
verb
spending, spends, spent
To use up or put out; expend.
Spent an hour exercising.
American Heritage
To pay out or use up money, etc.
Webster's New World
To use up, exhaust, consume, or wear out.
His fury was spent.
Webster's New World
To pass (a period of time)
Spending hours together.
Webster's New World
To pay out (money); disburse.
Webster's New World
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noun
An amount of money spent on something.
Doubled the spend on computers.
American Heritage
The spending of money; expenditure.
The management of spend.
American Heritage
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Spend

Noun

Singular:
spend
Plural:
spends

Origin of Spend

  • From Middle English spenden, from Old English *spendan (attested in compounds āspendan (“to spend"), forspendan (“to use up, consume")), from Proto-Germanic *spendanÄ…, *spendōnÄ… (“to spend"), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out"). Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend") (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide")), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate"), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spenden partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre to expend expend) and partly from Old French despendre to weigh out dispense

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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