EXPENDING

expending, expenditure

(noun) the act of spending money for goods or services

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

expending

present participle of expend

Noun

expending (plural expendings)

expenditure

expendings of time and energy

Source: Wiktionary

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EXPEND

Ex*pend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] Etym: [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]

Definition: 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.

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 .

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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