spend

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W1S1 [spend] v past tense and past participle spent [spent]

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1¦(money)¦

2¦(time)¦

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4¦(force/effort)¦

5 spend a penny

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[Date: 1100-1200; Origin: Partly from Latin expendere ( EXPEND) and partly, later, from Old French despendre, from Latin dispendere 'to weigh out']

1.) ¦(MONEY)¦ [I and T]

to use your money to pay for goods or services

▪ I can't afford to spend any more money this week.

spend £5/$10 etc

▪ I only want to spend about $20.

spend sth on sth

▪ More money should be spent on education.

spend sth on sb

▪ Mum never spends any money on herself.

▪ The repairs cost a lot, but it's money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money) .

2.) ¦(TIME)¦ [T]

to use time doing a particular thing or pass time in a particular place

spend time etc with sb

▪ I want to spend more time with my family.

spend time etc in/at sth

▪ We'll have to spend the night in a hotel.

▪ His childhood was spent in Brazil.

spend time etc doing sth

▪ Stacey spends all her free time painting.

3.) a) spend the night with sb

to stay for the night and have sex with someone

b) spend the night (at sth)

if someone spends the night at someone's house, they sleep at that person's house for a night

▪ She spent the night at a friend's house.

4.) ¦(FORCE/EFFORT)¦ [T]

to use effort or energy to do something

▪ I love to cook, but I don't feel like spending the energy every evening.

5.) spend a penny

BrE spoken old-fashioned to ↑urinate - used when you want to avoid saying this directly

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Synonyms:

Expend, disburse, lay out, dispose of, part with, Lay out money, incur expense / Waste, consume, exhaust, squander, dissipate, lavish, use up, Vanish, be lost, be consumed, dissipate, spread / Employ, devote, bestow, apply, pass / Waste, wear away, exhaust of force

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spend — [ spend ] (past tense and past participle spent [ spent ] ) verb *** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to use money to pay for things: How much money did you spend? spend for: This year we will spend more money for medical care. spend something… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
spend — /spend/ past tense and past participle spent /spent/ verb 1 MONEY (I, T) to use your money to buy or pay for things: spend money/ 5/$10/a lot: I spent so much money this weekend! | spend money etc on sth: More money should be spent on health and… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
spend — spend, *expend, disburse can mean to pay out money or an equivalent of money for something or in expectation of some return. Spend is the ordinary term; it may be used regardless of the amount dealt out in the purchase of something {spend a… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Spend — Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spent}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spending}.] [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See {Pendant}, and cf. {Dispend}, {Expend}, {Spence}, {Spencer}.] 1. To weigh or lay out;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spend — /spend/, v., spent, spending. v.t. 1. to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one s money. 2. to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some… … Universalium
spend´er — spend «spehnd», verb, spent, spend|ing. –v.t. 1. to pay out: »She spent ten dollars shopping for food today. 2. to use (labor, material, thought, or some other re … Useful english dictionary
spend*/*/*/ — [spend] (past tense and past participle spent [spent] ) verb 1) [I/T] to use money to pay for things How much money did you spend?[/ex] You spend too much on clothes.[/ex] 2) [T] to stay somewhere, or to do something, for a period of time We… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
spend — ► VERB (past and past part. spent) 1) pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services. 2) use or use up (energy or resources); exhaust. 3) pass (time) in a specified way. ► NOUN informal ▪ an amount of money paid out. ● … English terms dictionary
Spend — Spend, v. i. 1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. [1913 Webster] He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spend — [v1] give, pay out absorb, allocate, ante up*, apply, bestow, blow*, cast away, come across, come through, concentrate, confer, consume, contribute, cough up*, defray, deplete, disburse, dispense, dissipate, donate, drain, drop, employ, empty,… … New thesaurus

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