Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:.spend (Noun)Amount spent (during a period), expenditureI'm sorry boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.spend (Noun)expenditures; money or pocket money.spend (Noun)Discharged semen.spend (Verb)to pay out (money).spend (Verb)to exhaust, to wear out.spend (Verb)to consume, to use up (time)Origin: From spenden, from. (attested in compounds aspendan, forspendan), from spendanan, borrowed from expendere. Cognate with spenton (whence spenden), spenden, Old spenna.
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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:.Spendspend, v.t. To expend or weigh out: to give for any purpose: to consume: to waste: to pass, as time.— v.i. To make expense: to be lost, wasted, or dissipated: to emit milt, semen, &c.:— pr.p.
Spend′ing; pa.t. Kanpeki knife set scam. Spen′dable, that may be spent.— ns. Spend′all, a spendthrift; Spen′der; Spen′ding; Spense= Spence (q.v.).— adj. Spent, exhausted: impotent: of fish, exhausted by spawning. Expendĕre or dispendĕre, to weigh out. Examples of spend in a Sentence.:I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, this year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. ( Caters News Agency) Hayley Garbutt, Hayley Garbutt, charges about $ 45-a-head for a seat at her Christmas dinner table, the Sun reports.
Her guests include her three children, their partners and her four grandchildren. She also invites some friends as well. I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, she told the Sun.
This year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. But its not that Im being tight - it means I get to spend more in other aspects then too like presents - this year the tree has so many presents stacked around it, that you cant even see it.
1 Spend, disburse, expend, squander refer to paying out money. Spend is the general word: We spend more for living expenses now.
Disburse implies expending from a specific source or sum to meet specific obligations, or paying in definite allotments: The treasurer has authority to disburse funds. Expend is more formal, and implies spending for some definite and (usually) sensible or worthy object: to expend most of one's salary on necessities. Squander suggests lavish, wasteful, or foolish expenditure: to squander a legacy.