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Spend

Definition: Spend

Spend

Verb

1. Pass in a specific way; as of time; "How are you spending your summer vacation?".

2. Pay out; "spend money".

3. Spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Spend \Spend\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Spent; Spending.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Spend

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. To break ground; to continue working. b. To exhaust by mining; to dig out; used in the phrase, to spend groun. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Spend

Synonyms: drop (v), expend (v), pass (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Spend

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Business

Verb: pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in; employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern oneself with; make it one's business; Noun: undertake; enter a profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with; (do).

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

Expenditure

Verb: expend, spend; run through, get through; pay, disburse; ante, ante up; pony up; open the purse strings, loose the purse strings, untie the purse strings; lay out, shell out, fork out, fork over; bleed; make up a sum, invest, sink money.

Giving

Concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend.

Inactivity

Idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.

Liberality

Verb: be liberal;Adjective: spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings; (disburse); spare no expense, give carte blanche.

Purchase

Keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn; pay; spend;.

Time

Pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time; (be inactive).

Waste

Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Spend

English words defined with "spend": affordBe, blow, burnChristmas, churl, club, consumeDespend, Dispend, dissipate, doeconomise, economizefool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol awayget through, Gleekholiday, honeymoonlead, less, losemess around, misspend, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck aroundone-armed bandit, overspendparsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinch, penny-pinching, penurious, piddle, piddle away, potter, Prodigalize, putterQuiddlesave, Scotale, scrooge, serve, shoot, skinflint, slot, sojourn, squander, summer, Sundaythrift, tinker, To fool away, To go through, To make away with, To run through, To sleep away, To throw away, trifle, trifle awayunderspendvacationwanton, wanton away, ware, waste, weekend, while away, winter. (references)
Specialty definitions using "spend": Aldabella, AVOIDED COSTBladder, blow your wad, Bread, Bully-boy, bummin'CLUB, clustergeeking, Commodity promotion programs, Completion, Contact Work, Corn ... Horn, custyDays set apart as Sabbaths, Dee Mills, dining philosophers, Doctor, dwell timeEcash, Everfart around, fifth generation language, finger trouble, Fiscal Billholy warsJellybyLagadomail bomb, May-day, meatspace, Mothering SundayNeverPlough MondayReading Habitsschool voucher, Sea, station stop timeTied Loan, Trainwindow shopping, Worklife estimates. (references)
Etymologies containing "spend": Forspent. (references)

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Modern Usage: Spend

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.)

How many years you spend pissing on a toilet seat before someone told you to put it up (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I want to spend the night with you. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg)

To spend his life pining for you, and to die miserable and alone (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Lyrics

You probably spend hours on the phone (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

When I spend my last dime to be in your life (I Don't Wanna; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I could spend my life in this sweet surrender (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH)

I'm not looking forward to the night I will spend (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply)

And I want to spend my life with you ("Let's Stay Together"; performing artist: Al Green)

Clever

Monday is an awful way to spend 1 7th of your life. (references; author: unknown)

Time is like money: You can either spend, waste, or invest! (references; author: unknown)

How would you like to spend eternity: smoking or non-smoking? (references; author: unknown)

Live for Jesus now and spend the rest of eternity in the non-smoking section. (references; author: unknown)

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Let's Spend the Night Together (1982)

Song Titles

LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER  (performing artist: Rolling Stones )

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Spend

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fodor's Upclose Germany: The Complete Guide, Thoroughly Up-To-Date Savvy Traveling: Where to Spend, How to Save Packed With Details That Willmake yo (reference)

  • How to Raise a Family on Less Than Two Incomes: The Complete Guide to Managing Your Money Better So You Can Spend More Time With Your Kids (reference)

  • How You Can Be Sure That You Will Spend Eternity with God (reference)

  • Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt: Projects and Activities That Bring the Past to Life (Spend the Day in ... Series) (reference)

  • The 5 Minute Investor: When You Don't Want to Spend the Time, but Want the Results (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • How to Spend Less Traveling (reference)

  • How To Spend Quality Reading Time With Your Child In Just 15 Minutes A Day (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Spend

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Spend

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What a great way to spend the day - surf fishing near Vandenburg AFB. Credit: Fisheries.

Dr. James P. McVey deciding how to spend the money. Credit: Small World.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan addressed several Air Force issues Nov. 23, when he visited Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with airmen from the 39th Wing and people deployed there to support Operation Northern Watc.

Spend Time with a Friend who has AIDs Poster.

If you're planning to have sex in the next 30 years, spend 2 minutes reading this. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The only tune that he could play was spend and spend, and pay and pay. Credit: Library of Congress.

Winter pastimes. Thinking how much more wisely you could spend the amount of your income tax than ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Manzanar, Calif., May 1942--Girls at the ice cream bar in the community store of the War relocation authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration of the war Foreground, left to right, Florence Yamaguchi, Nancy Kawashimi, Flo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lumberjacks in hotel lobby at Durman Hotel, Little Forks, Minnesota. Many of the men that rise early spend a few hours here reading and talking before going to work. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Spend
 

"Oldplumbing" by Marty Weis
Commentary: "Some of the old plumbing in my basement...i don't spend much time down there, but maybe i should ;)."
"Rose and chapel" by C.H. So
Commentary: "They do spend alot of money on the roses!!!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Spend

AuthorQuotation

George Herbert

Spend not on hopes.

Jules Renard

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Plautus

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

Richard Whately

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever you have spend less.

Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Walter F. Mondale

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

William James

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

William Shakespeare

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Spend

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

I have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred to one: for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniencies of life, as ten acres of equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated? Before the appropriation of land, he who gathered as much of the wild fruit, killed, caught, or tamed, as many of the beasts, as he could; he that so imployed his pains about any of the spontaneous products of nature, as any way to alter them from the state which nature put them in, by placing any of his labour on them, did thereby acquire a propriety in them: but if they perished, in his possession, without their due use; if the fruits rotted, or the venison putrified, before he could spend it, he offended against the common law of nature, and was liable to be punished; he invaded his neighbour's share, for he had no right, farther than his use called for any of them, and they might serve to afford him conveniencies of life. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Spend

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He had walked up one day after dinner, as he very often did, to spend his evening at Hartfield

Contact

Carl Sagan

You can spend a lot of yourtime in litigation

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

They spend their time in playing dominoes

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Spend all their time looking

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spend

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

We typically spend more than 2 hours each night dreaming. (references)

Infants, by contrast, spend about half of their sleep time in REM sleep. (references)

You do not need to spend a lot of time or money on house cleaning activities. (references)

Business

People between 65 and 79 spend the most time watching TV (149 minutes). (references)

Therefore, manufacturers spend time and effort to build up their brand image. (references)

For 1999, Belgians were expected to spend approximately USD 10 billion on travel. (references)

Children

India

The state governments also spend part of their budgets on education, but no comprehensive figure of combined federal-state expenditure on education is available. (references)

Moldova

Observers allege that women begging on the streets of Chisinau often sedate their babies in order to spend long hours begging without having to take time out to attend to their babies' needs. (references)

Brazil

In 2000 a study in the city of Sao Paulo found 609 children living permanently on the street; a much greater number of children spend their days on the streets, but have families with whom they spend the night. (references)

Civil Liberties

Germany

The law also decreased the period of residence legal foreign residents must spend in the country in order to earn the right to naturalize from 15 to 8 years. (references)

Indonesia

Laws and decrees from the 1970's limit the number of years that foreign missionaries may spend in the country, although some extensions were granted in remote areas like Papua. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

Irish companies spend in excess of $244 million on direct marketing services annually. (references)

Human Rights

Hungary

Some programs allow prisoners to spend weekends at home. (references)

France

Some suspects spend many years in prison before a trial. (references)

Vanuatu

Defendants spend extended periods in detention due to judicial inefficiency. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

In 2001-02 the Government plans to spend approximately $1.2 billion (A$2.34 billion) on indigenous-specific programs in areas such as health, housing, education, and employment. (references)

Minorities

Mozambique

In addition the President, Prime Minister, and Cabinet members continued to spend a significant amount of time in the provinces during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Botswana

However, some Batswana would prefer to see the government save less and spend more to spread the country's wealth more equitably. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

In 2000 the High Court ruled that ZANU-PF could not spend the MDC share until the matter was resolved. (references)

Pakistan

An appointed civil servant administers these areas; an elected Northern Areas Council serves only in an advisory capacity and has no authority to change laws or to raise and spend revenue. (references)

Trade

Poland

These banks offer counseling services to western firms on regulations and business practices in Poland, and some spend considerable time counseling Polish businesses on western business practices, business plans, and financial plans. (references)

Travel

Bahamas

Some taxi drivers are willing, for a prearranged fee, to spend the entire day with a single customer. (references)

Sweden

Swedish business people appear to be willing to spend more time discussing a situation than do Americans. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

If you plan to spend a week or more in Abidjan, you may wish to hire a car and driver for transportation around the city. (references)

Women

Cuba

The FMC also asserted that 11,200 women had received land parcels to cultivate, that more than 561,000 women had begun working as agricultural workers, and that women devoted 34 hours a week to domestic work, approximately the same number of hours they spend working outside the home. (references)

Jordan

Although few defendants are able to meet the stringent requirements for a crime of honor defense (the defendant personally must have witnessed the female victim engaging in sexual relations), most avoid trial for the crime of murder, and are tried instead on the charge of manslaughter; even those convicted of murder rarely spend more than 2 years in prison. (references)

Worker Rights

Poland

They may spend a few months in Poland before they are trafficked further west. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Spend

SpeakerPhrase(s)

David Berkowitz

Well, because I work and go to chapel and so forth, I can spend a good portion of my day outside of the cell.

Donald Rumsfeld

Oh, certainly. I've been there several times, and I intend to. We spend a lot of time thinking about it. It's terribly important that they succeed.

James Dobson

Of course. Of course. And this is why, you know, I spend as much time as I do talking about our social responsibilities. I want to help parents raise their kids. I want to deal with marriage and other aspects of family life.

Linda Fairstein

I am always writing, but the violence issue is my passion, and I spend a lot of nonprofit time doing work on that issue.

Martha Stewart

So how can we help you spend more time with your children, not waste time doing silly things, or things that are everyday things that you have to do, but we could help you do them much faster.

Prince Albert of Monaco

Yeah, yeah. You know, sometimes the press says, oh, I'm closer to Stephanie because I'm closer in age, or that I spend more time with her. But I'm equally close to Caroline as I am to Stephanie.

Rush Limbaugh

It's mind-boggling to think that we need to spend money on ads to remind our military personnel to keep secrets!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Spend

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963To achieve this end, the United States will continue to spend a greater portion of its national production than any other people in the free world.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977But it points us in the right direction--allowing taxpayers rather than the Government to spend their pay.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Well, at last there is agreement that we can't spend ourselves rich.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Every year doctors and nurses spend more time on paperwork and less on patients because of the bureaucratic nightmare the present system has become.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Again, I repeat, we're willing to spend more money.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Spend

"Spend" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 69.87% of the time. "Spend" is used about 7,494 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)69.87%5,2361,868
Lexical Verb (base form)29.82%2,2353,943
Noun (proper)0.27%2078,262
Noun (common)0.03%2245,945
                    Total100.00%7,494N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Spend

Expressions using "spend": run up bills spend spend a lot spend a lot of money spend a penny spend a wakeful night spend all one's time in sleep spend all smb.'s money spend chatting spend everything spend in traveling spend money spend money like water spend on booze spend on drink spend on food spend on smoking spend on sweets spend on the phone spend one's holiday reading spend one's time spend oneself spend prodigally spend the day spend the night spend the night at one's home spend the summer spend the time spend the winter spend the winter in spend time spend time in spend time in doing spend time on smth. spend too much money. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "spend": spend-all, spend-thrift.

Ending with "spend": tax-and-spend.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spend

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

spend my life with you

79

to spend holiday in umbria

8

day jose spend

69

let night sheraton spend together

7

benet eric life lyrics spend

41

spend together vely

6

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35

eric benet spend my life with you

6

let spend the night together

30

life spend tamia

6

life lyrics spend

30

enterprise spend

6

to spend my lifetime loving you

29

leisure spend time

6

net spend

18

asset protect rather spend than them wisely

5

spend the night

17

donnas spend the night

5

medicaid spend down

15

lyrics night pendergrass spend teddy

5

beginning day each end special spend there

13

spend down

5

canseco day jose spend

13

spend money

5

day marina spend

11

engineer information looking much spend time

4

spend management

11

lifetime spend

4

let lyrics night spend together

11

able monthly mortgage payment re spend they

4

lifetime loving lyrics spend

9

life lyrics spend tamia

4

life loving spend time

8

lifetime loving mp3 spend

4

how much to spend on an engagement ring

8

doing lawyer legal percent research spend time

4

gift much spend wedding

8

alone another ataris i lyrics night spend t won

4

category spend

8

benet eric life lyrics spend tamia

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spend

Language Translations for "spend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

spandeer (dedicate, devote, pay, pay out), oordra (convey, hand, hand over, pass), deurbring (pass), aangee (accord, accuse, denounce, give, pass). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

shter (drain, exhaust, stew), shpenzoj (consume, expend, outlay, rate), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, dispatch, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, surcease, terminate, wind up), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness), harxhoj (consume, dissipate, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, melt, outlay, scatter, skittle away, squander, trifle away, use up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

بذل (offer, to give), ‏نهك (exhaust, fatigue, fray, frazzle, gruel, harass, jade, macerate, overdo, overload, overstrain, prostrate, wear), ‏قضى (accomplish, carry out, decree, execute, foreordain, ordain, pay, predestine, preordain, require, settle), ‏ضنى (exhaust, hardship, languish, tire, tucker), ‏إستعمل (anticipate, bestow, employ, ply, use), ‏إستخدم (employ, engage, exercise, exploit, harness, hire, hunt, indent, involve, take on, use, utilize), ‏أمضى, ‏أنفق الثروة, ‏أنفق (disburse, exhaust, expend, lay out, outlay, pass away, put in, spend the time), ‏بذل (do, exert, extend), ‏بذر (blow, disseminate, dissipate, drill, fritter, inseminate, run through, sow, sowing, squander, waste), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, disperse, dissipate, fool, fritter, melt, resolve, scatter, slattern, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

   

Basque

  

eukiko (will spend). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

утихвам (calm down, fall, quiet, subside, tranquilize), разходвам, хвърлям хайвера си (spawn), харча (hand out, invest, lay out), отдавам (attach, devote, give, impute, pay, refer, render, set down), загубвам (lapse, lose), жертвувам (immolate, sacrifice), пропилявам (fritter away, misspend, muddle away, riot away, run through, wanton), прекарвам (convey, have, lead, pass, pass away, pilot, reside, run, spin out, take over, wheel), похарчвам (dispose of, sell), потрошавам (break, drop), изразходвам (disburse, drain, eat up, exhaust, expend, spin out, use up), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, tire out, tucker, waste). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

花费 (Costing), 度過 (pass). (various references)

   

Czech

  

strávit (consume, digest, stomach), vynaložit (apply, expend), vydat peníze, vyèerpat se (become exhausted, give out, run out), vìnovat (dedicate, devote, give, give up, pay, put in), utratit (destroy, expend, go through, outlay, use up), trávit èas. (various references)

   

Danish

  

give ud (pay out). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spenderen (dedicate, devote, pay out), spanderen (dedicate, devote, pay out), besteden (pay out). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

pasigi (pass), elspezi (pay out). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

liggja nátt (pass the night, spend the night). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرداخت کردن (Buffer, Burnish, Disburse, Give, Scour), تمام شدن (Go, Pass, Peter, Poop), تحلیل رفتن قوا, صرف کردن (Conjugate, Expend, Have, Inflect), صرف شدن , خرج کردن (Disburse, Expend, Outlay). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viettää (celebrate, descend, incline slant, pass, slope). (various references)

   

French

  

passer, dépenser. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oanrikke (convey, hand, hand over, pass), oanlangje (convey, hand, hand over, pass), oanjaan (accord, give, pass). (various references)

   

German

  

verbringen (live out, pass, put in, to spend), zubringen (bring to, get closed, get done up, get shut, pass, put in, take to), aufwenden (expend, use). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξοδεύω (consume, lay out, pay out, spend money). (various references)

   

Guarani

  

jahasáta (we shall spend). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לבזבז (dissipate, muddle, spoil, squander, waste), הוציא (take out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tölt (fed, fill, load, pour, to charge, to feed, to fill, to line, to pass, to recharge), költ (bred, expend, poetize, to breed, to brood, to cover eggs, to expend, to incubate, to versify), használ (do good to, employ, exert, make use of, to apply, to avail, to employ, to exert, to ply, to use, turn to account, use, utilize). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menghabisi (end, finish off, wipe out), membiayakan, membelanjakan (expend). (various references)

   

Irish

  

caith. (various references)

   

Italian

  

passare (be passed, be taken for, call at, cross, elapse, get through, give, go beyond, go by, go through, hand, hand on, happen, help, lapse, pass, pass off, put, put through, roll by, roll on, run, see out, slip, stop by, strain, switch, take place, to pass, transfer), spendere (expend, hand out, pay out). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

明かす (to divulge, to pass, to reveal). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あかす (to bore, to divulge, to glut, to pass, to reveal, to satiate, to tire, to weary). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

쓰십시요 (Write). (various references)

   

Luganda

  

kumala. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ceau (aim, carry, consume, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, rake, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, throw, wear), baarail (expend, expenditure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

endspay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

spędzać (pass), wydawać (pay out). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

gastar (batter, consume, disburse, expend, go, pay out, run out of, run through, scuff, serve, take, waste). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

passe. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se uza (fret, rub, wear, wear out), se termina (be up, close, come out, finish, go out, pass, pass off, perish, peter out, rest, terminate), sacrifica (immolate, sacrifice, slaughter, victimize), termina (accomodate, accomplish, achieve, bring to an end, clear up, close, complete, conclude, do, end, finish, get over, have done, liquidate, mop up, pack it in, shoot away, stop, terminate, wind up), risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, consume, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), petrece (accompany, carouse, celebrate, end, feast, frolic, go with, happen, junket, live, make good cheer, pass, revel, spree, suffer, undergo), irosi (cast away, consume, dissipate, fiddle, idle, muddle away, squander, waste), epuiza (consume, crock, deplete, distress, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, use up, waste), consuma (consume, corrode, destroy, exhaust, take, use, waste, worry), consacra (assign, consecrate, dedicate to, devote to, establish, give, hallow, sanctify, sanction), cheltui (blue, consume, employ, expend, outlay, scatter, squander, transact money, waste). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тратить (expend, hand out, outlaid, spends, spent). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cosg (pay out), cosd (cost, waste), caith (cast, exhaust, wear). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

trošiti (consume, dig into, disburse), provoditi, provesti (carry out, guide, instal, install, put in, show through). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

passari (to spend). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), gastar (burn, cash, consume, expend, get through, go through, lay out, outwear, part with, pay out, play, run through, sink, sport, squander, waste, wear, wear away, wear down, wear out, wear through), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), entregar (concede, consign, convey, deliver, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield), alargar (accord, convey, draw out, drop, dwell on, elongate, extend, give, hand, hand over, hold out, lengthen, let down, pass, protract, put forth, put out, reach, spin out, strech out, throw out, touch). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillbringa (pass), spendera, förbruka (consume, exhaust, expend, use up). (various references)

   

Tswana

  

rena. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sperm dökmek, sarfetmek (call forth, consume, expend), tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), para harcamak (disburse, put one's hand in one's pocket, spend money), harcamak (consume, dally away, employ, exert, expend, lay out, put forth, put out, spin out, swallow up, use up, waste), geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spin out, stick, swipe, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), etkisini azaltmak (cushion, dilute, make nonsense of, stultify, vitiate). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яitirmek (give up, lose), harзlamak (expend, waste), harajat etmek (expend, use up). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

витрачатися, витрачати (consume, disburse, dispend, expend, hand out, throw away, use, use up, ware, waste). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

treulio (consume, digest, transact money, wear), gwario, bwrw (cast, imagine, shed, strike, suppose, throw, woof). (various references)

   

Wolof

  

yenduleen (May you spend the night), yenduji (spend the day out), yendoo (spend the day with), fanaan (spend the night). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Spend

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

acta, actu, actum, acturi, acturum, acturus, actus, aestiva, aestivo, agam, agamus, agant, agantur, agar, agarenos, agareos, agas, agat, agatis, agatur, age, agebant, agebat, agebatur, agendo, agendum, agens, agent, agente, agentes, agentibus, agentis, agentium, agere, agerent, agerentur, ageret, ageretur, ages, aget, agetis, agi, agimus, agis, agit, agite, agitur, ago, agunt, aguntur, consumam, consumant, consumantur, consumas, consumat, consumatur, consume, consumendus, consumens, consumentur, consumere, consumerem, consumerentur, consumeretur, consumeris, consumet, consumetur, consumi, consumit, consumitur, consumpserat, consumpseris, consumpserunt, consumpsi, consumpsimus, consumpsit, consumpta, consumptae, consumptaque, consumptas, consumpti, consumptis, consumptisque, consumptum, consumptura, consumptus, consumptusque, conteram, conteramus, conterantur, conteras, conterat, conteratis, conteratur, contere, conterebam, conterendam, conterendos, conterendum, conterens, conterent, conterentur, conterere, contererentur, contereret, contereris, conteres, conteret, conteretur, conteris, conteritis, conteritur, conterunt, contrita, contritae, contritaeque, contriti, contritis, contrito, contritos, contritum, contritus, contriverim, contriverit, contrivero, contriverunt, contrivi, contrivisset, contrivisti, contrivit, dependente, dependentia, egerant, egerat, egere, egerim, egerimus, egerint, egeris, egerit, egeritis, egerunt, egeruntque, egi, egimus, egissent, egisset, egisti, egistis, egit, expendere, imple, impleam, impleamini, impleamur, impleamus, impleant, impleantque, impleantur, implearis, impleas, impleat, impleatis, impleatque, impleatur, implebant, implebat, implebimus, implebis, implebit, implebitis, implebitur, implebo, implebor, implebunt, implebuntur, implens, implent, implentes, impleo, implere, implerem, implerent, implerentur, impleret, impleretur, impleri, imples, implesset, implesti, implestis, implet, impleta, impletae, implete, impleti, impletique, impletis, impletisque, impletum, impletur, impletus, impleverant, impleverat, impleverint, impleveris, impleverit, implevero, impleverunt, implevi, implevimus, implevit, implevitque, inpendam, inpende, inpendebant, inpendere, inpensa, inpensas, obduco, prodigo, superinpendar. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Spend

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 20, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEkrinen gar o pauloV parapleusai thn efeson opwV mh genhtai autw cronotribhsai en th asia espeuden gar ei dunaton hn autw thn hmeran thV penthkosthV genesqai eiV ierosoluma
Latin405VulgateProposuerat enim Paulus transnavigare Ephesum ne qua mora illi fieret in Asia festinabat enim si possibile sibi esset ut diem pentecosten faceret Hierosolymis
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Poul purposide to schip ouer to Efesi, lest ony tariyng were maad to hym in Asie; for he hiyede, if it were possible to hym, that he schulde be in the dai of Pentecost at Jerusalem.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleFor Paul had determined to leave Ephesus as they sayled because he wolde not spende ye tyme in Asia. For he hasted to be (yf he coulde possible) at Ierusalem at the daye of pentecoste.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Basic English1964OgdenFor Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Spend

LanguageActs Chapter 20, Verse 16
AlbanianSepse Pali kishte vendosur të lundronte pa u ndalur në Efes, që të mos humbiste kohë në Azi; sepse nxitonte që të ndodhej, po të ishte e mundur, në Jeruzalem ditën e Rrëshajëve.
CebuanoKay tuyo man ugod ni Pablo ang pagsaylo lamang sa Efeso aron dili siya kausikan ug panahon didto sa Asia; kay siya nagdali sa pag-abut sa Jerusalem, kon mahimo, sa adlaw sa Pentecostes.
CroatianJer Pavao je odluèio mimoiæi Efez da se ne bi zadržao u Aziji: žurio se da, uzmogne li, na dan Pedesetnice bude u Jeruzalemu.
DanishThi Paulus havde besluttet at sejle Efesus forbi, for at det ikke skulde hændes, at han blev opholdt i Asien; thi han hastede for at komme til Jerusalem på Pinsedagen, om det var ham muligt.
FinnishSillä Paavali oli päättänyt purjehtia Efeson ohitse, ettei häneltä kuluisi aikaa Aasiassa; sillä hän kiiruhti joutuakseen, jos suinkin mahdollista, helluntaiksi Jerusalemiin.
FrenchPaul avait résolu de passer devant Éphèse sans s`y arrêter, afin de ne pas perdre de temps en Asie; car il se hâtait pour se trouver, si cela lui était possible, à Jérusalem le jour de la Pentecôte.
GermanDenn Paulus hatte beschlossen, an Ephesus vorüberzuschiffen, daß er nicht müßte in Asien Zeit zubringen; denn er eilte, auf den Pfingsttag zu Jerusalem zu sein, so es ihm möglich wäre.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariPaulus telah menetapkan untuk tidak singgah di Efesus, supaya jangan membuang waktu di daerah Asia. Sedapat mungkin ia ingin cepat-cepat sampai di Yerusalem pada hari raya Pentakosta.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKarena maksud Paulus akan berlayar melintas Epesus, supaya jangan berlambatan di tanah Asia sebab ia hendak bangat, kalau boleh ia tiba di Yeruzalem pada hari raya Pentakosta.
ItalianPaolo aveva deciso di passare al largo di Efeso per evitare di subire ritardi nella provincia d'Asia: gli premeva di essere a Gerusalemme, se possibile, per il giorno della Pentecoste.
MaoriI mea hoki a Paora kia rere i waho ake o Epeha, kei roa ia ki Ahia: i porangi hoki me kore e rokohanga atu ia e te ra o te Petekoha ki Hiruharama.
NorwegianFor Paulus hadde satt sig fore å seile Efesus forbi, så han ikke skulde bli heftet i Asia; for han hastet for å nå frem til Jerusalem til pinsedag, om det var ham mulig.
PortuguesePorque Paulo havia determinado passar ao largo de Éfeso, para não se demorar na Ásia; pois se apressava para estar em Jerusalém no dia de Pentecostes, se lhe fosse possível.   
RumanianPavel se hotqrkse sq treacq pe lkngq Efes, fqrq sq se opreascq aici, ca sq nu peardq vremea kn Asia; cqci se grqbea ca, dacq -i va fi cu putinyq, sq fie kn Ierusalim de ziua Cincizecimii.
ShuarPápruka Jerusarénnum wari wétajtsa wakerimiayi, Pintikiustís naartin Jístatin pachiinkiataj tusa. Tuma asamtai, Asia nunkanam ti Núkap pujustinian nakitiak "Ipisiunam wéchattajai" Tímiayi.
Spanishpues Pablo había decidido pasar de largo a Éfeso para no detenerse en Asia; porque, de serle posible, se apresuraba para pasar el día de Pentecostés en Jerusalén.
SwahiliPaulo alikuwa amekusudia kuendelea na safari kwa meli bila kupitia Efeso ili asikawie zaidi huko Asia. Alikuwa na haraka ya kufika Yerusalemu kwa sikukuu ya Pentekoste kama ingewezekana.
SwedishPaulus hade nämligen beslutit att segla förbi Efesus, för att icke fördröja sig i provinsen Asien; ty han påskyndade sin färd, för att, om det bleve honom möjligt, till pingstdagen kunna vara i Jerusalem.
UmaNapakatantu ami' -mi Paulus, bona neo' -pi leba' mehani hi ngata Efesus, bona neo' -kai mahae rahi hi propinsi Asia. Doko' napesahui pomako' -na, apa' konoa nono-na doko' mpokaralai eo bohe Pentakosta hi Yerusalem.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Spend

Derivations

Words beginning with "spend": spendable, spender, spenders, spending, spends, spendthrift, spendthrifts. (additional references)

Words ending with "spend": dispend, misspend, outspend, overspend, suspend. (additional references)

Words containing "spend": antispending, dispended, dispending, dispends, misspending, misspends, outspending, outspends, overspender, overspenders, overspending, overspends, suspended, suspender, suspendered, suspenders, suspending, suspends. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Spend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspend, espend, mpend, pend, sband, sben, sendt, slend, spead, spean, Speld, spem, spen, spendi, spendt, spendy, sperd, spernd, spind, spinde, splend, spond, sponid, sppend, spuen, srend, stend, supen, svend. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Spend"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "spend" (pronounced spe"nd)
5s p e" n dexpend, misspend, suspend.
4-p e" n dappend, depend, impend, penned.
3-e" n damend, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defend, descend, lend, distend, end, extend, fend, friend, intend, mend, offend, overextend, portend, pretend, recommend, relend, send, tend, transcend, trend, unbend, wend, yearend.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Spend

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pends.

Words within the letters "d-e-n-p-s"

-1 letter: dens, ends, peds, pend, pens, send, sned, sped.

-2 letters: den, eds, end, ens, ped, pen, pes, sen.

-3 letters: de, ed, en, es, ne, pe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-p-s"
 

+1 letter: sendup, sniped, spends, spined, upends, upsend.

 

+2 letters: appends, bedpans, dampens, daphnes, dapsone, deepens, depends, depones, despond, dipnets, dispend, dyspnea, expands, expends, impends, panders, pandies, pedants, pentads, pinders, ponders, respond, sendups, snapped, sneaped, snipped, snooped, spandex, spanked, spanned, spawned, speaned, spender, spindle, splined, spondee, sponged, spooned, spunked, spurned, stipend, suspend, unposed, upsends.

 

+3 letters: compends, dampness, dapsones, deadpans, deanship, deepness, depaints, deplanes, deposing, desponds, dispends, dispense, dopiness, dyspneal, dyspneas, dyspneic, dyspnoea, endopods, expensed, expounds, headpins, inspired, kneepads, misspend, notepads, operands, outspend, padrones, pandects, pandores, pardners, pendants, pendents, pentodes, perpends, pinheads, pinweeds, plunders, poisoned, portends, pounders, prebends, prebinds, predawns, prescind, pretends, prisoned, propends, protends, punished, responds, sandpeep, sandpile, sidespin, siphoned, snapweed, spadones, spandrel, spangled, spavined, speeding, spenders, spending, sphenoid, spindled, spindler, spindles, splendid, splendor, splinted, spondees, sprained, springed, sprinted, stipends, suspends, synapsed, syphoned, undrapes, unpoised, unposted, unshaped, uptrends.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Expressions
17. Expressions: Internet
18. Translations: Modern
19. Translations: Ancient
20. Bible Trace
21. Derivations
22. Rhymes
23. Anagrams
24. Bibliography


  

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