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Definition of expend

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Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..

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Efficiency :: Efficiency (n.) The ratio of useful work to energy expended.

Economical :: Economical (a.) Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.

Fool-largesse :: Fool-largesse (n.) Foolish expenditure; waste.

Supply :: Supply (n.) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies..

Outlay :: Outlay (n.) That which is expended; expenditure.

Dispend :: Dispend (v. t.) To spend; to lay out; to expend.

Bill :: Bill (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc..

Extravagant :: Extravagant (a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man..

Book :: Book (n.) A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc..

Proportion :: Proportion (v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income..

Prudent :: Prudent (a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money..

Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..

Report :: Report (v. t.) To give an official account or statement of; as, a treasurer reports the receipts and expenditures..

Prodigality :: Prodigality (n.) Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony..

Underwork :: Underwork (v. t.) To expend too little work upon; as, to underwork a painting..

Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war..

Theorica :: Theorica (n. pl.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund..

Save :: Save (a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.

Exhaustible :: Exhaustible (a.) Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended..

Disburse :: Disburse (v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.