Meaning of EXPEND
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- [v] use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions."
- [v] pay out; "spend money"
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| | Synonyms: | | drop, spend, use |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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