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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary spend
\\ˈspend\\ verb
(spent \\ˈspent\\ ; spend·ing) ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Old English -spendan, from Medieval Latin expendere to disburse, use up, from Latin, to measure by weight, pay out — more at expend DATE 13th century transitive verb1. to use up or pay out : expend 2.
a. exhaust , wear out
the hurricane gradually spent itself
b. to consume wastefully : squander
the waters are not ours to spend — J. R. Ellis3. to cause or permit to elapse : pass
spend the night4. give up , sacrifice intransitive verb1. to expend or waste wealth or strength2. to become expended or consumed3. to have an orgasm
• spend·able \\ˈspen-də-bəl\\ adjective
• spend·er noun spend
"to pay out or away" (money or wealth), O.E. -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from L. expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Gmc. borrowing (cf. O.H.G. spendon, Ger., M.Du. spenden, O.N. spenna). In ref. to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 ☞ spendspend / spend / verb ( spent, spent / spent / ) 1. ~ sth (on sth / on doing sth) to give money to pay for goods, services, etc. 用,花(钱):
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I've spent all my money already. 我已经把我的钱全都花完了。
She spent £100 on a new dress. 她花 100 英镑买了一条新连衣裙。
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The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems. 公司花了几千英镑更新计算机系统。
▪ [also V]2. ~ sth (on sth) | ~ sth (doing sth / in doing sth) to use time for a particular purpose; to pass time 花(时间)；度过:
▪ [VN]
We spent the weekend in Paris. 我们在巴黎度过了周末。
How long did you spend on your homework? 你做家庭作业用了多长时间？
How do you spend your spare time? 你在业余时间干什么？
Most of her life was spent in caring for others. 她大半辈子的时间都用来照顾别人了。
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I spend too much time watching television. 我看电视花的时间太多。3. [VN] [often passive] to use energy, effort, etc., especially until it has all been used 花费,消耗,用尽(精力等):
She spends too much effort on things that don't matter. 她在一些无关紧要的事情上花费精力太多。⇨ see also spent IDIOMS ▪ spend the 'night with sb1. to stay with sb for a night 在某人家里住一夜:
My daughter's spending the night with a friend. 我女儿要在一个朋友那里过夜。2. (also spend the 'night together) to stay with sb for a night and have sex with them 和某人一起过夜并发生性关系▪ spend a 'penny
( old-fashioned, BrE) people say 'spend a penny' to avoid saying 'use the toilet' (委婉说法,与 use the toilet 同义)解手,方便noun [sing.]
( informal) the amount of money spent for a particular purpose or over a particular length of time (为某目的或某段时间内的)花销,花费,开销:
The average spend at the cafe is £10 a head. 在咖啡馆的人均消费是 10 英镑。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English Oxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishspend
verb ADV. wisely Try to be objective if you want to spend your money wisely. | lavishly PREP. on The company spent a lot on advertising. spend verb ⇨ spend 1 (spend money) ⇨ spend 2 (spend time) Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged spendI. \ˈspend\ verb
( spent \-nt\ ; spent ; spending ; spends) Etymology: Middle English spenden, from Old English & Old French; Old English spendan, from Latin expendere to weigh out, expend; Old French despendre, from Latin dispendere to weigh out — more at expend , dispense transitive verb1. : to distribute or consume in payment or expenditure : pay out : expend , disburse
< spends money freely >
< spent his inheritance within a few years >2.
a. : to exhaust or wear out by use or activity
< the silver agitation had by this time spent its force — Marian Silveus >
< gradually the hurricane spent itself — Francis Robinson >
< spent himself in the service of humanity — D.S. & Jessie Jordan >
b. : to make use of : employ
< prehistorians have spent their learning and ingenuity on reconstructing continental invasions — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes >
< determined to spend these new bullets … more profitably — H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker >
c. : to consume wastefully : squander
< spend your rich opinion for the name of a night-brawler — Shakespeare >
d. archaic : destroy 3. : to cause or permit to elapse : use the interval of : pass
< have spent the greater part of the last year going up and down the countryside — S.P.B.Mais >
< spends three hours a day on his studies >
< spent his life in a quiet village >
< spend the evening with his friends >4. : to give up : endure the loss of
< to royalize his blood, I spent my own — Shakespeare >
< the ship spent its mast >intransitive verb1. : to expend money or other possession
< spends without any thought for the next day >2. chiefly dialect : to turn out or produce in a specified manner 3. : to become expended
< I have no skill to make money spend well — R.W.Emerson >Synonyms:
expend , disburse : spend is the general term indicating a paying out of money or, sometimes, incurring obligations calling for its being paid
< spend a hundred dollars for a coat >
< spending billions on wars >
It may apply to using, consuming, or exhausting without tangible or specific return
< spend time on the project >
< spend one's life in government service >
expend is often but not always applied to larger sums or more important materials and attributes
< more than twenty million dollars has been expended in the construction — American Guide Series: New York City >
< during the war years we have expended our resources — both human and natural — without stint — H.S.Truman >
< this eloquence was always expended in expounding the duties of the citizen — H.L.Mencken >
disburse is sometimes interchangeable with expend; it indicates a paying out or distributing, often from a public or corporation fund, sometimes by a person or agency other than the one doing the spending or expending
< state and federal funds disbursed for roads aggregated $34,514,584 — James Brewster >
< waiting for the teller to disburse those complex payroll accounts — Christopher Morley >
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- spend one's mouth II. noun
( -s) : the act or process of spending money — used in the phrase on the spend
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