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spend

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verb/spɛnd//spɪnd//spend/
  1. 1

    To pay out (money).ambitransitive

    • I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
    • He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
  2. 2

    To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

    • I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.
  3. 3

    To squander.dated

    • to spend an estate in gambling
  4. 4

    To exhaust, to wear out.

    • The violence of the waves was spent.
  5. 5

    To consume, to use up (time).

    • My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
    • We spent the winter in the south of France.
  6. 6

    To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.ambitransitivedated

    • The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
  7. 7

    To waste or wear away; to be consumed.intransitive

    • Energy spends in the using of it.
  8. 8

    To be diffused; to spread.

    • The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
  9. 9

    To break ground; to continue working.

noun/spɛnd//spɪnd//spend/
  1. 1

    Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.countableuncountable

    • I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
  2. 2

    Expenditures; money or pocket money.countablein-pluraluncountable

    • Total January spends by year
    • The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]
  3. 3

    Discharged semen.countableuncountable

  4. 4

    Vaginal discharge.countableuncountable

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