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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

expent en · VERB

Etymology

Probably influenced by spend→spent.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) simple past and past participle of expend
    form of expend
    • it expent in the operation and maintenance of [the library...] 1917, Board of Trade Journal:
    • Y'know, during the Las Vegas shooting Stephen Paddock supposedly expent over 3000 rounds of ammunition over the course of ten minutes from 27 AR-15's with bump stocks. ???, ???, ???:
    • Much time has to be expent in order to realize them. 2012, R. Radharamanan, Robotics and Factories of the Future ’87: Proceedings of the Second International Conference San Diego, California, USA July 28–31, 1987, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 274:
    • Frequently the mineral composition or gas content may be injurious and money expent in pond construction wasted. 1939, James Nelson Gowanloch, The Rearing of Fish in Ponds: