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Grammar : Verb
Spell : spend
Phonetic Transcription : spɛnd



Definition of spending

Origin :
  • "to pay out or away" (money or wealth), Old English -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from Latin expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old High German spendon, German and Middle Dutch spenden, Old Norse spenna). In reference to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300.
  • verb give, pay out
  • verb use time; occupy
Example sentences :
  • He had, therefore, merely gone to the city, and was spending his time in the taverns.
  • Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
  • I have no idea of spending another thousand years as I spent the last.
  • Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "My friend, who is spending a few weeks with me," explained the Doctor.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • He drove over to see her while she was spending a few days with an aunt in Sudleigh.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Eagerly I worked at the laboratory, spending most of my evenings in study.
  • Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
  • Actually, since I have got back to London, I am spending all my surplus cash on hansoms.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • He's taken to drink, and is spending in wickedness the money his father left him.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
  • After spending the night at Clermont, the voyage was resumed on Wednesday.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • She shivered at the thought of spending hours, days, in this place alone.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • Why, I have been at the whiskey shop, spending my last sixpence.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various

Synonyms for spending

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