spend
To pay out (money).
Verb 4 meanings
To pay out (money).
“I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.”
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
To squander.
“to spend an estate in gambling”
To exhaust, to wear out.
“The violence of the waves was spent.”
Noun 2 meanings
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
“I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.”
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
Etymology
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
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SPEND at a glance
SPEND has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (S 1 + P 3 + E 1 + N 1 + D 2) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,113 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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