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spend

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  • IPA /spɛnd/

Noun

spend noun

  1. Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.“I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.”
  2. (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
  3. Discharged semen.
  4. Vaginal discharge.

Verb

spend verb

  1. To pay out (money).“He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.”
  2. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
  3. To squander.“to spend an estate in gambling”
  4. To exhaust, to wear out.“The violence of the waves was spent.”

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