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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expended}; p. pr & vb n. {Expending}.] [L. expendere, expensum to weigh out pay out lay out lay out ex out + pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, and cf {Spend}.] To lay out apply, or employ in any way to consume by use to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. i. 1. To be laid out used or consumed. 2. To pay out or disburse money. They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. --Macaulay . From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expend v 1: use up consume fully; " The legislature expended its time on school questions." [syn: {use}] 2: pay out "spend money" [syn: {spend}, {drop}]
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