spent
Listen:For the verb: "to spend"
| Simple Past: | spent |
| Past Participle: | spent |
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spent /spent/ past and past participle of spend
▶adjective used up; exhausted.
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’.
'spent' also found in these Oxford entries:
affinity card
- boodle
- busman
- chez
- dirty weekend
- disposable income
- dissaving
- doss
- expenditure
- expense
- expense account
- leisure
- line
- loss
- lyke wake
- outlay
- pore
- porridge
- recoup
- red
- reimburse
- reprocess
- ring fence
- shore leave
- sleepover
- spend
- stretch
- tan
- tied
- time
- unspent
- vigil
- week
- well spent
- while
- worthwhile
