spend
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- IPA /spɛnd/
Noun
spend noun
- Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.“I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.”
- (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
- Discharged semen.
- Vaginal discharge.
Verb
spend verb
- To pay out (money).“He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.”
- To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- To squander.“to spend an estate in gambling”
- To exhaust, to wear out.“The violence of the waves was spent.”
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