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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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Prodigalize :: Prodigalize (v. t.) To expend lavishly.

Spending :: Spending (n.) The act of expending; expenditure.

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

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

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..

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..

Consume :: Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..

Parsimonious :: Parsimonious (a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

Outgo :: Outgo (n.) That which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of income..

Economist :: Economist (n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste..

Erogate :: Erogate (v. t.) To lay out, as money; to deal out; to expend..

Parsimony :: Parsimony (n.) Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

Stress :: Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35..

Expenditure :: Expenditure (n.) That which is expended or paid out; expense.

Expending :: Expending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expen.

Spare :: Spare (n.) That which has not been used or expended.

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Yield :: Yield (v. t.) To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent..

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

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