Expend
[ɪk'spend;ek-] or [ɪk'spɛnd]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Disburse, spend, lay out.[2]. Use, employ.[3]. Exhaust, consume, waste, dissipate.
Editor: Rodney
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spend, disburse, lay_out, waste, consume, use
ANT:Save, husband, economize
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Definition
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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Examples
- All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In this case, chemical action is expended in heat rather than in the production of electricity and the liquid becomes hot. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The money was not paid to them directly, but was expended judiciously and for their benefit. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He started a lawsuit at once to recover the sums he had expended, and judgment was given against Gutenberg, commanding that he should pay what he had borrowed, together with interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This of itself was a subject of much importance and a vast amount of research and labor was expended upon it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Are you certain that you can afford to part with so much money, and that it is right that it should be so expended? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The original estimate for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was £300,000, but the amount expended on the works at the time of opening was nearly £800,000. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This is because water, in flowing from place to place, expends force in overcoming the friction of the pipes and the resistance of the air. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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