Meaning & use
spend
To pay out money in exchange for goods or services, or to use up time or effort on something.
See it in a sentence
They spent nearly two hundred dollars on groceries for the week.
She spent the whole afternoon reorganizing the garage instead of relaxing like she had planned.
A note on using this word
Spend takes money as its most common object, but it also works naturally with time, energy, or effort.
Words with a similar meaning
pay outexpenduse up
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Words with an opposite meaning
saveearn
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