SPEND


Meaning of SPEND in English

(~s, ~ing, spent)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.

When you ~ money, you pay money for things that you want.

By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money...

Businessmen ~ enormous amounts advertising their products...

Juventus have spent ?23m on new players...

The survey may cost at least ?100 but is money well spent.

VERB: V n, V n -ing, V amount/n on n, V-ed

~ing

Government ~ing is expected to fall.

= expenditure

N-UNCOUNT

2.

If you ~ time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it.

Engineers ~ much time and energy developing brilliant solutions...

This energy could be much better spent taking some positive action.

VERB: V n -ing, V n -ing

3.

If you ~ a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time.

We spent the night in a hotel.

VERB: V n adv/prep

4.

The ~ on a particular thing is the amount of money that is spent on it, or will be spent. (BUSINESS)

...the marketing and advertising ~.

N-COUNT

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