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spend English

Meaning spend meaning

What does spend mean?
Definitions in simple English

spend Verb

— When you spend money, you give the money to buy something. I spend too much at the book store each month. I spent a lot at that store last month. — to pass, to use I spend my free time reading and relaxing. She spends her morning hours house-cleaning. I spent my afternoon hours in meditation. He is spending his holiday in Aruba.

spend

— verb (= pass) pass time in a specific way how are you spending your summer vacation? — verb pay out spend money — verb spend completely I spend my pocket money in two days

Synonyms spend synonyms

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spend English » English

expend pass consume waste use up use pay out exhaust disburse pay give squander outlay cost take lose invest employ dissipate wear lay out half-day drop wear out utilize turn on time run through purchase incur hand over dispend devote deplete buy yield write out work wipe out wield wear off wear down wear away weaken wasteful wanton away wanton vacation trifle away trifle

Topics spend topics

What do people use spend to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Spend
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Visit
States Time

Take time

Conjugation spend conjugation

How do you conjugate spend?

spend · verb

Examples spend examples

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Simple sentences

We are born crying, spend our lives complaining, and die disappointed.
Children who spend more time outdoors have a lower risk of myopia.
I often spend my free time listening to music.
It was a pleasure to spend the evening with a smart, funny and beautiful girl like you.
You can spend the night at our place.
How much time do you spend on Facebook?
How much does he spend per month?
Tom and Mary wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
I don't think I could spend six hours alone with you.
How do you spend your time?
The less you spend, the more you save.
Tom doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life regretting it.
Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.
My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
When I was a child, I would spend hours reading alone in my room.
How much money did you spend in total?
How did you spend your vacation?
Where do you suppose you'll spend your vacation?
A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
Don't spend so much time watching TV.
Where are you going to spend the vacation?
Where do you intend to spend your vacation?
How are you going to spend such a large amount of money?
Don't spend too much money.
How did you spend your free time?

Movie subtitles

Guys, we wanted to go on a mission so we could spend two years of our life living someplace exciting and helping people, right?
I could either get down on my hands and knees here and spend the rest of my life counting every single one or I could do what Kepler's going to do, which we call sampling.
We have evidence, a confession, and the bad guy doesn't spend one night in jail?
Dad, I have been pretending to be this responsible family man, but the truth is, I spend a lot of time partying with Cooper and his friends.
Tell her I'd rather spend time along with my girlfriend than with my own mother?
And all my friends, you know, they complain that their kids never want to spend any time with them, but not me.
I didn't spend five shillings on setting lotion and two hours in rollers only to spend the evening knitting with the nuns.
And he would spend the entire day mowing his lawn.
You really want to spend it talking about your dad mowing the lawn? - No.
Or is it that you'd rather spend time with painted ladies than look for your Detective?
Sutton, I'm sure you understand that every penny I pour into my assistant's salary is a penny less I have to spend on the image, which is what sells this magazine.
You'd think I'd be happy you're gonna spend the rest of your life in prison.
You spend too much time with them.
They'll have to spend at least 2 more years here.
You can spend the night here.
You really want to spend it talking about your dad mowing the lawn?
We can only spend 20 minutes on the search.
One more infraction, and you'll spend a month in isolation.
Finding you, stopping you. You'd think I'd be happy you're gonna spend the rest of your life in prison.
It's sad that the days pass so quickly, that I have to spend them away from you!
Youth whistles, and we? We spend the rest of the evening reading a book.
I'll spend my life trying to make it up to you.
Why should you be able to spend less on yourself than some women do on their rotten poodles?
I have to spend half my life waiting for these time clocks to open.
I wish I could spend every moment of my life with you.
I suggest that you and Johnny spend the summer there.
We spend all of our time trying to keep one step ahead of all the teachers.
I would sooner pound the treadmill in the workhouse or pick oakum... than spend another hour engaged in labour such as this.
This is great, 'cause all I need to do is spend a day at a craft store. my wedding's done.
It would please my parents and myself very much, if you. would like to spend your summer vacation here at the vicarage.
I must spend a little time with your customers.
We'll spend the whole day on it, huh?
How do you spend your nights?
You're the first young lady to spend the night in this studio.
How would you like to spend the year with us there?

News and current affairs

Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.
It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.
High-income countries also finally agreed to reduce the debt owed by heavily indebted poor countries, allowing them to spend more on health care and less on crippling payments to creditors.
The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.
The growing concentration of wealth - and a significant reduction in taxes on it - has meant less money to spend on investments for the public good, like education and the protection of children.
American states like California spend about as much on prisons as on higher education - and sometimes more.
Several states, including California, now spend more on prisons than they do on higher education.
Third, improved opportunities to borrow allow one to spend more now, when one is poor, and save more later, when one is rich.
Booming home prices gave Americans the confidence, and the financial wherewithal, to spend more than their income.
Instead, easy money stimulated the economy by inducing households to refinance their mortgages, and to spend some of their capital.
Nor does it help Americans' mood that they spend far more of their lives working than do citizens in Europe or, these days, even Japan.
Individuals now have to save more to prepare for retirement, and retirees have less wealth to spend.
Both political parties, and the White House, would rather cut taxes than spend more on education, science and technology, and infrastructure.
In fact, my formal residence is in New York City, but I am about to spend most of the next five months in Russia, training to be a cosmonaut in Star City, just outside Moscow.
Households (and countries) that were most prone to spend cannot borrow any more.
To revive growth, others must be encouraged to spend - governments that can still borrow should run larger deficits, and rock-bottom interest rates should discourage thrifty households from saving.
But we all know that these countries and their national banks were able to spend trillions of dollars in a few months to bail out their bankers, who earned super-profits when the going was good.
After all, by allowing people to spend more than they have, borrowed money can fuel growth.
Beyond this ceiling, the government can spend only from current revenues.

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