spend

verb
/spɛnd/

To pay out (money).

Example

“I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.”

Other meanings

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
To exhaust, to wear out.
“The violence of the waves was spent.”

Synonyms

drop

Related words

forespend
respend
spaving
spendability
spendable
spendaholic
spendathon
spendicitis
spendless
spendocracy
spendocrat
spendworthy

Example sentences

“Do you spend a lot of money on clothes?”
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“Cookie spends most of his day in that exact spot.”
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Word history

From Old English "spendan".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “spend” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.