Expend

[ɪk'spend;ek-] or [ɪk'spɛnd]

解释:

(v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

(v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.

(v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.

校对:威拉德

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Disburse, spend, lay out.[2]. Use, employ.[3]. Exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate.

整理:罗德尼

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Spend, disburse, lay_out, waste, consume, use

ANT:Save, husband, economize

编辑:卡蒂

解释:

v.t. to lay out: to employ or consume in any way: to spend.—ns. Expend′iture act of expending or laying out: that which is expended: the process of using up: money spent; Expense′ (Shak.) expenditure: outlay: cost: (pl.) the cost of a lawsuit (Scots law).—adj. Expens′ive causing or requiring much expense: extravagant.—adv. Expens′ively.—n. Expens′iveness.—Be at the expense of to pay the cost of.

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