About The Word Expend
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Expend
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What's The Definition Of Expend?
[v] use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions."
[v] pay out; "spend money" Synonyms | Synonyms for Expend: drop | spend | use Related Terms | Find terms related to Expend: ablate | absorb | assimilate | bestow | bleed white | blow | budget | burn up | consecrate to | consume | cost | cost out | dedicate to | deplete | devote | digest | disburse | disbursement | dish out | dispense | dissipate | distribute | drain | drain of resources | eat | eat up | employ | erode | exhaust | expenditure | finish | finish off | fork out | give | give over to | give to | go | go through | gobble | gobble up | impoverish | incur costs | ingest | invest | lay out | lose | open the purse | outlay | pass | pay | pay out | put in | put out | run through | sap | schedule | shell out | sink money in | spend | spill | splurge | squander | suck dry | swallow | swallow up | throw money around | use | use up | wash up | waste | waste away | wear away | while | while away | wile See Also | abuse | afford | blow | blow | commit | consume | consume | deplete | deplete | eat | eat | eat up | eat up | economise | economize | exhaust | exhaust | invest | misspend | misuse | occupy | pay | penny-pinch | pervert | place | put | run through | run through | save | spare | squander | squander | take | trifle away | underspend | use up | use up | wanton | wanton away | ware | waste | waste | wipe out | wipe out Expend In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay
out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See
{Poise}, and cf. {Spend}.]
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. --Shak.
\Ex*pend"\, 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. --Macaulay . |
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