spend
verb
[ spɛnd ]
• give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something.
• "the firm has spent £100,000 on hardware"
Similar:
pay out,
lay out,
expend,
disburse,
squander,
go through,
run through,
waste,
fritter away,
lavish,
fork out,
shell out,
dish out,
cough up,
blow,
splash out,
splurge,
lash out,
stump up,
blue,
knock down,
spring,
pony up,
• pass (time) in a specified way or in a particular place.
• "she spent a lot of time travelling"
Similar:
pass,
occupy,
fill,
take up,
while away,
use up,
put in,
devote,
employ,
waste,
spend
noun
• an amount of money paid out.
• "the average spend at the cafe is £10 a head"
Origin:
Old English spendan, from Latin expendere ‘pay out’; partly also a shortening of obsolete dispend, from Latin dispendere ‘pay out’.
