Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SPEND
spend, expend, drop
(verb) pay out; “spend money”
spend
(verb) spend completely; “I spend my pocket money in two days”
spend, pass
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way; “how are you spending your summer vacation?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
spend (third-person singular simple present spends, present participle spending, simple past and past participle spent)
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
(dated) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
To consume, to use up (time).
(dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
To be diffused; to spread.
(mining) To break ground; to continue working.
Noun
spend (countable and uncountable, plural spends)
Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
(in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
Discharged semen.
Vaginal discharge.
Anagrams
• pends
Source: Wiktionary
Spend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spent; p. pr. & vb. n. Spending.] Etym: [AS. spendan (in comp.), fr. L. expendere or dispendere to weigh out, to expend, dispense. See Pendant, and cf. Dispend, Expend, Spence, Spencer.]
1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing. Spend thou that in the town. Shak. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread Isa. lv. 2.
2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon. I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment. Herbert.
3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad. We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent. Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst. Knolles.
Spend, v. i.
1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning. South.
2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.
3. To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.
4. (Mining)
Definition: To break ground; to continue working.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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