When you use money or time, you spend it. If you spend a lot of time at the mall, you'll probably also spend money there.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with;
Verb
pay out; "spend money"
Verb
spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"
Verb
pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
v. t.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to
spend money for clothing.
v. t.
To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.
v. t.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
v. t.
To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a
day idly; to spend winter abroad.
v. t.
To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away;
as, the violence of the waves was spent.
v. i.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use,
waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
v. i.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or
strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
v. i.
To be diffused; to spread.
v. i.
To break ground; to continue working.
Spend
Spend thou that in the town.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?2.
I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.3.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.5.
Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst.
Spend
He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning.2.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.3.
The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.4.
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with;
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything;
Usage Examples
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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Other Usage ExamplesAnd I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
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