spend

verb

use (money)
bide time
be used up

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /spɛnd/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend. Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).

Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
“I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.”
Expenditures; money or pocket money.
“Total January spends by year”
“The spends have been made by our strategic partners […]”
Discharged semen.
Vaginal discharge.

verb

To pay out (money).
“I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.”
“He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.”
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
“I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.”
To squander.
“to spend an estate in gambling”
To exhaust, to wear out.
“The violence of the waves was spent.”
“their bodies spent with long labour and thirst”
To consume, to use up (time).
“My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.”
“We spent the winter in the south of France.”
To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
“The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.”
To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
“Energy spends in the using of it.”
“The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.”
To be diffused; to spread.
“The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.”
To break ground; to continue working.