Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti
Proto-Italic *pendō
Latin pendō
Latin expendōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *spendōn
Old English spendan
Middle English spenden
English spend
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
(countable, in-plural, uncountable) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
The spends have been made by our strategic partners […] 2011, “Council spending over £500”, in Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2012:
Total January spends by year 2011 February 1, Ami Sedghi, “Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club”, in The Guardian:
(countable, uncountable) Discharged semen.
(countable, uncountable) Vaginal discharge.
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Translations (13)
pt jato (discharged semen) · pt gasto (amount spent) · pt gastos (expenditures) · it spesa (amount spent) · sv fickpengar (expenditures) · no lommepenger (expenditures) · eo elspezo (amount spent) · fi menot (expenditures) · fi satsi (discharged semen) · fi mälli (discharged semen) · bg разходи (expenditures) · fi kulut (amount spent) · bg харч (amount spent)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)péndeti
Proto-Italic *pendō
Latin pendō
Latin expendōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *spendōn
Old English spendan
Middle English spenden
English spend
From Middle English spenden, from Old English spendan (attested especially in compounds āspendan (“to spend”), forspendan (“to use up, consume”)), from Proto-West Germanic *spendōn (“to spend”), borrowed from Latin expendere (“to weigh out”). Doublet of expend.
Cognate with Old High German spentōn (“to consume, use, spend”) (whence German spenden (“to donate, provide”)), Middle Dutch spenden (“to spend, dedicate”), Old Icelandic spenna (“to spend”).
Meanings
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.
I've already spent hundreds of dollars buying dog chow.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment. [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC:
(dated) To squander.
to spend an estate in gambling
To exhaust, to wear out.
their bodies spent with long labour and thirst 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
The violence of the waves was spent.
To consume, to use up (time).
My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…] 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him. 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
We spent the winter in the south of France.
(ambitransitive, dated) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.
(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
Energy spends in the using of it.
To be diffused; to spread.
The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
fr dépenser (to pay out) · fi käyttää (to pay out) · nl opgebruikt raken (to wear out, to exhaust) · kum тас этмек (to pay out) · uk ви́снажити (to wear out, to exhaust) · pl spędzać (to consume, to use up (time)) · de erschöpfen (to wear out, to exhaust) · io spensar (to pay out) · bg изразходвам (to wear out, to exhaust) · arz قعد (to consume, to use up (time)) · fi kuluttaa (to consume, to use up (time)) · pl wydać (to pay out) · hu tölt (to consume, to use up (time)) · cmn 花 (to wear out, to exhaust) · de ausgeben (to pay out) · pl spędzić (to consume, to use up (time)) · ga caith (to wear out, to exhaust) · nl doorbrengen (to consume, to use up (time)) · acw صَرَف (to pay out) · eo travivi (to consume, to use up (time)) · ms belanja (to pay out) · fa سپنج کردن (to consume, to use up (time)) · th จับจ่าย (to pay out) · da give ud (to pay out) · fi kuluttaa loppuun (to wear out, to exhaust) · es pernoctar (to consume, to use up (time)) · ko 들이다 (to consume, to use up (time)) · nl spenderen (to consume, to use up (time)) · kum харжламакъ (to pay out) · fi käyttää (to wear out, to exhaust) · uk висна́жувати (to wear out, to exhaust) · ru провести́ (to consume, to use up (time)) · az sərf etmək (to pay out) · sv spendera (to pay out) · alt ӱредер (to pay out) · fr passer (to consume, to use up (time)) · id mengeluarkan (to pay out) · no bruke (to consume, to use up (time)) · kum ёкъ этмек (to pay out) · tr harcamak (to consume, to use up (time)) · aii ܨܵܪܹܦ (to pay out) · sh provoditi (to consume, to use up (time)) · hu elkölt (to pay out) · zdj upvitsa (to consume, to use up (time)) · ja 暮らす (to consume, to use up (time)) · ca gastar (to wear out, to exhaust) · nl spenderen (to pay out) · sh tratiti (to pay out) · tr geçirmek (to consume, to use up (time)) · tr harcamak (to pay out) · it logorarsi (to wear out, to exhaust) · eo pasigi (to consume, to use up (time)) · ga caith (to pay out) · es despender (to pay out) · vec spender (to pay out) · cs utrácet (to pay out) · az keçirmək (to consume, to use up (time)) · sv ägna (to consume, to use up (time)) · is eyða (to pay out) · ko 소비하다 (to pay out) · as কটা (to consume, to use up (time)) · es erogar (to pay out) · de verbrauchen (to wear out, to exhaust) · sv lägga (to consume, to use up (time)) · aii ܡܲܥܒ݂ܸܪ (to consume, to use up (time)) · ang āspendan (to consume, to use up (time)) · cmn 花 (to pay out) · lo ຈ່າຍ (to pay out) · pt gastar (to wear out, to exhaust) · cs trávit (to consume, to use up (time)) · fi kuluttaa (to wear out, to exhaust) · uk ви́тратити (to pay out) · it spendere (to pay out) · grc ἀναλίσκω (to pay out) · de verbringen (to consume, to use up (time)) · ro cheltui (to wear out, to exhaust) · it impiegare (to consume, to use up (time)) · ru потра́тить (to pay out) · de aufzehren (to wear out, to exhaust) · it consumare (to consume, to use up (time)) · ang ādrēogan (to consume, to use up (time)) · it passare (to consume, to use up (time)) · th ใช้ (to pay out) · pt gastar (to pay out) · bg изчерпвам (to wear out, to exhaust) · ru истра́тить (to wear out, to exhaust) · fi käyttää (to consume, to use up (time)) · uk ви́тратити (to wear out, to exhaust) · bg харча (to pay out) · izh hukata (to pay out) · ca gastar (to pay out) · io spensar (to consume, to use up (time)) · ko 보내다 (to consume, to use up (time)) · et kulutama (to pay out) · pl wydawać (to pay out) · es pasar (to consume, to use up (time)) · uk витрача́ти (to wear out, to exhaust) · fi kuluttaa (to pay out) · da spendere (to pay out) · ja 過ごす (to consume, to use up (time)) · hu költ (to pay out) · as খৰচ কৰ (to pay out) · sv spendera (to consume, to use up (time)) · da bruge (to consume, to use up (time)) · ga caith (to consume, to use up (time)) · uk проводити (to consume, to use up (time)) · ar صَرَفَ (to pay out) · alt тарадар (to pay out) · lt leisti (to consume, to use up (time)) · mr खर्च करणे (to pay out) · ru тра́тить (to wear out, to exhaust) · hi ख़र्च करना (to pay out) · he לִנְפֹּשׁ (to consume, to use up (time)) · grc διάγω (to consume, to use up (time)) · ru проводи́ть (to consume, to use up (time)) · ru израсхо́довать (to wear out, to exhaust) · it esaurirsi (to wear out, to exhaust) · grc δαπανάω (to pay out) · fi viettää (to consume, to use up (time)) · pt passar (to consume, to use up (time)) · arz صرف (to pay out) · ko 들이다 (to pay out) · sh проводити (to consume, to use up (time)) · sq prish (to pay out) · ro cheltui (to pay out) · be выдава́ць (to pay out) · aii ܢܲܦܸܩ (to consume, to use up (time)) · cmn 度 (to consume, to use up (time)) · sh тратити (to wear out, to exhaust) · ar قَضَى (to consume, to use up (time)) · uk витрача́ти (to pay out) · es gastar (to pay out) · aii ܚܲܪܸܓ̰ (to pay out) · cy treulio (to consume, to use up (time)) · eo elspezi (to pay out) · km ចំណាយ (to pay out) · tl gastusin (to pay out) · th ใช้จ่าย (to pay out) · el ξοδεύω (to pay out) · uk тра́тити (to pay out) · nl besteden (to consume, to use up (time)) · be тра́ціць (to pay out) · it placarsi (to wear out, to exhaust) · ar أَنْفَقَ (to pay out) · sv tillbringa (to consume, to use up (time)) · ru расхо́довать (to wear out, to exhaust) · az xərcləmək (to pay out) · ca passar (to consume, to use up (time)) · sh tratiti (to wear out, to exhaust) · fi käyttää loppuun (to wear out, to exhaust) · ko 쓰다 (to pay out) · cmn 度過 /度过 (to consume, to use up (time)) · cs utratit (to pay out) · sv lägga ner (to consume, to use up (time)) · id membelanjakan (to pay out) · de spendieren (to pay out) · sh тратити (to pay out) · lt praleisti (to consume, to use up (time)) · ja 消費する (to pay out) · es expender (to pay out) · he לְבַלּוֹת (to consume, to use up (time)) · got 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (to pay out) · nl uitgeven (to pay out) · az sərf etmək (to consume, to use up (time)) · vi tiêu (to pay out) · ru тра́тить (to pay out) · bg консумирам (to consume, to use up (time)) · kum зая этмек (to pay out) · kum сарп этмек (to pay out)