SPENDING

spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlay

(noun) the act of spending or disbursing money

outgo, spending, expenditure, outlay

(noun) money paid out; an amount spent

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

spending (countable and uncountable, plural spendings)

(uncountable) gerund of spend, expenditure.

An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.

Hyponyms

• double spending

Etymology 2

Verb

spending

present participle of spend

Source: Wiktionary

Spend"ing, n.

Definition: The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money, money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]

SPEND

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