Definition of Spend

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Definition of Spend

Spend

To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

To be diffused; to spread.

To break ground; to continue working.

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Spend Quotations

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Spend Translations

spend in Afrikaans is oordra, deurbring, spandeer, aangee
spend in Danish is give ud
spend in Dutch is besteden, spenderen, spanderen
spend in German is verbringen, verbringen, aufwenden
spend in Italian is emettere, passare, largire
spend in Latin is obduco, prodigo
spend in Portuguese is gaste, gastar
spend in Spanish is expender, pasar

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