to spend
81spend — verb (past and past participle spent) 1》 pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services. 2》 use or use up (energy or resources); exhaust. ↘pass (time) in a specified way. noun informal an amount of money paid out. Phrases spend a penny …
82spend money like water — of someone spends money like water, they spend too much. Carol spends money like water no wonder she s always broke …
83spend money like water — informal to spend too much money in a careless way …
84spend — [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 …
85spend-all — noun someone who spends money prodigally • Syn: ↑spendthrift, ↑spender, ↑scattergood • Derivationally related forms: ↑spend (for: ↑spender) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
86spend one's mouth — phrasal obsolete : give tongue : bark coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them Shakespeare …
87spend·er — /ˈspɛndɚ/ noun, pl ers [count] : a person who spends money The restaurant gives the big spenders [=people who spend lots of money] special treatment …
88spend a penny — verb To use the toilet …
89spend — suspend …
90spend — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. disburse, pay out, ex pend; consume, exhaust; pass, employ. See ejection, waste. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To expend] Syn. consume, deplete, waste, dispense, contribute, donate, give, liquidate,… …
