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spending 音标拼音: [sp'ɛndɪŋ] n. 经费 经费 spending n 1: the act of spending or disbursing money [ synonym: { spending}, { disbursement}, { disbursal}, { outlay}] 2: money paid out; an amount spent [ synonym: { outgo}, { spending}, { expenditure}, { outlay}] [ ant: { income}] Spending \ Spend" ing\, n. The act of expending; expenditure. [ 1913 Webster] { Spending money}, money set apart for extra ( not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster]
Spend \ Spend\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Spent}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Spending}.] [ AS. spendan ( in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See { Pendant}, and cf. { Dispend}, { Expend}, { Spence}, { Spencer}.] 1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. [ 1913 Webster] Spend thou that in the town. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? -- Isa. lv. 2. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster] I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. -- Herbert. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. [ 1913 Webster] We spend our years as a tale that is told. -- Ps. xc. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. [ 1913 Webster] Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. -- Knolles. [ 1913 Webster]
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