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71spend- — To make an offering, perform a rite, hence to engage oneself by a ritual act. O grade from *spond . 1. Suffixed form *spond eyo . sponsor, spouse; despond, espouse, respond, from Latin spondēre, to make a solemn promise, pledge, betroth. 2.… …
72spend — 1. verb /spɛnd/ to consume, to use, to exhaust 2. noun /spɛnd/ a) amount spent (during a period) I’m sorry boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month …
73spend — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb, allot, assign, assimilate, attend to business, be exposed to, be subjected to, bestow, bleed white, blow, budget, burn up, busy, consecrate to, consume, contribute, cost, cost out, dedicate to, deplete …
74spend — [OE] Spend is a blend of verbs from two distinct sources, but both going back ultimately to Latin pendere ‘weigh, pay’. The earlier was Latin expendere ‘pay out’ (later to give English expend [15]), which Old English took over as spendan. (It was …
75Spend a penny — To spend a penny is to go to the bathroom. It is a very old fashioned expression that still exists today. It comes from the fact that in ladies loos you used to operate the door by inserting an old penny …
76spend\ the\ night — v. phr. To sleep somewhere. It was so late after the party that we decided to spend the night at our friends house …
77spend money — waste money, spend extravagantly …
78spend holidays — do during your holidays, go for your holidays How d you spend your holidays? We drove to Texas and Tijuana …
79spend time — wait, hang out, put in time I spend a lot of time at her place. I m there every day …
80spend more time with your family to be — dismissed from employment Usually of a senior employee who has been peremptorily dismissed: ... he has not resigned... He will be preparing for the trial and would like to spend some time with [his] family . (Daily Telegraph, 2 March… …
