spend
Listen:For the verb: "to spend"
| Simple Past: | spent |
| Past Participle: | spent |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spend/spend/
▶verb (past and past part. spent)
- 1 pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services.
- 2 use or use up (energy or resources); exhaust.
■ pass (time) in a specified way.
– phrases
spend a penny Brit. euphemistic urinate. [with ref. to coin-operated locks of public toilets.]
spend a penny Brit. euphemistic urinate. [with ref. to coin-operated locks of public toilets.]
– derivatives
spendable adjective,
spender noun.
spendable adjective,
spender noun.
– origin OE spendan, from L. expendere ‘pay out’; also a shortening of obs. dispend, from L. dispendere ‘pay out’.
'spend' also found in these Oxford entries:
aestivation
- blow
- blue
- burn
- close
- company
- dip
- do
- doss
- economize
- expend
- faff
- fuck
- fund
- go
- hand
- hang
- hibernate
- holiday
- honeymoon
- idle
- knock
- lash
- lay
- laze
- linger
- live
- lollygag
- love nest
- misspend
- outspend
- overspend
- overwinter
- parsimonious
- parsimony
- pass
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- pernoctate
- piddle
- pocket
- primp
- rusticate
- save
- sedentary
- see
- serve
- slum
- spent
