spend

verb

1. 1

   To pay out (money).

   I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.

   He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.

   Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

   In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

2. 2

   To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

   I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

3. 3

   datedTo squander.

   to spend an estate in gambling

4. 4

   To exhaust, to wear out.

   The violence of the waves was spent.

   their bodies spent with long labour and thirst

5. 5

   To consume, to use up (time).

   My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

   We spent the winter in the south of France.

   During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

   The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.

6. 6

   datedTo have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

   The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

7. 7

   To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

   Energy spends in the using of it.

   The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.

8. 8

   To be diffused; to spread.

   The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

9. 9

   To break ground; to continue working.

noun

1. 1

   Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

   I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.

2. 2

   Expenditures; money or pocket money.

   Total January spends by year

   The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]

3. 3

   Discharged semen.

4. 4

   Vaginal discharge.

Forms

plural

spends

past tense

spent

past participle

spent

present participle

spending

third person singular

spends