spend
pronunciation
How to pronounce spend in British English:
UK [spend]
How to pronounce spend in American English:
US [spend]
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- Verb:
- pass (time) in a specific way
- pay out
- spend completely
Word Origin
- spend
- spend: [OE] Spend is a blend of verbs from two distinct sources, but both going back ultimately to Latin pendere ‘weigh, pay’. The earlier was Latin expendere ‘pay out’ (later to give English expend [15]), which Old English took over as spendan. (It was also the source of German spenden.) This was later reinforced by dispend, a borrowing from Old French despendre which now survives only in dispense.=> dispense, expend, pendant, pendulum
- spend (v.)
- "to pay out or away" (money or wealth), Old English -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from Medieval Latin spendere, a shortening of Latin expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend) or possibly of dispendere "to pay out." A general Germanic borrowing (Old High German spendon, German and Middle Dutch spenden, Old Norse spenna). In reference to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c. 1300. Intransitive sense "exhaust, wear (oneself) out" is from 1590s (see spent).
Example
- 1. Spend about 20 minutes preparing them .
- 2. Never spend in excess of your income .
- 3. But germany prefers to save rather than spend .
- 4. How do you spend your off hours ?
- 5. Most governments probably have enough money to spend .