expend en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ɛkˈspɛnd/
- /ɪkˈspɛnd/
- (US) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin expendō (“to weigh; to pay out”). Doublet of spend.
Meanings
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(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).
So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:Here Black expends an important tempo. 11...B-K3 seems better.
1962 May, Max Euwe, “Game of the Month”, in Chess Review:If my death might make this island happy […] I would expend it with all willingness.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.
1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| expending | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| expendest | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres | archaic | lexicographic |
| expended | Number=Plur, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expended | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expended | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expended | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| expended | Mood=Sub, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expended | Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expended | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| expendedst | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Past | archaic | lexicographic |
| expendeth | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | archaic | lexicographic |
| expends | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| expend | Number=Plur, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| expend | VerbForm=Inf | lexicographic | |
| expend | Mood=Sub, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| expend | Number=Sing, Person=1, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| expend | Mood=Imp, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| expend | Number=Sing, Person=2, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
expender · expendable · expendability · misexpend
Relateds
expent · expenditure · expensive · expense
Translations (39)
fr dépenser (to spend money) · es expender (to spend money) · io spensar (to consume resources) · cs vynaložit (to consume resources) · gl consumir (to consume resources) · gl despender (to spend money) · grc ἀναλίσκω (to consume resources) · sv lägga ner (to consume resources) · hu elhasznál (to consume resources) · hu fordít (to spend money) · fr dépenser (to consume resources) · ja 消耗する (to consume resources) · cs spotřebovat (to consume resources) · gl gastar (to spend money) · cs spotřebovat (to spend money) · es despender (to spend money) · cs vydat (to consume resources) · io spensar (to spend money) · mi whakapeto (to consume resources) · mi whakaporo (to consume resources) · gl gastar (to consume resources) · bg харча (to spend money) · eo elspezi (to spend money) · it spendere (to consume resources) · bg изразходвам (to consume resources) · mi whakatange (to consume resources) · it spendere (to spend money) · mi whakapau (to consume resources) · es despesar (to spend money) · hu kiad (to spend money) · sv förbruka (to consume resources) · gl despender (to consume resources) · cs vyčerpat (to spend money) · cs utratit (to spend money) · hu költ (to spend money) · hu ráfordít (to spend money) · hu kimerít (to consume resources) · hu felél (to consume resources) · hu felhasznál (to consume resources)