Definition
to spend (money, time): to pay, to give out, to use (money); to pass, to use (time doing something)
Kevin Connors does not like to spend money.
I spent a month in Mexico.
I spent the day in Paris and I even saw the Eiffel tower!
This is an irregular verb:
I spend / I spent / I have spent
the spending: the payment, the cost, the expenditure
- "Everything depends on billing - how many hours you spend even thinking about a client."
- "Don't forget the winner of the contest will spend a weekend with me on my private jet (also a contractual obligation)."
- "Narrator : Bruno never forgot this remarkable first encounter, and spent his years at University studying animal behavior and linguistics."
- "You can spend the night there."
- "Bruno had spent his remaining savings on two plane tickets, and so he was forced to stay with his parents, Marc and Sarah."
- "And the beauty of this song is - in case it wins me any bonus points - you can also use it for New Year too, which I assume I'll also be spending alone."
- "Spend, spend, spend."
- "Every day I spend my time drinking wine, feeling fine"
- "What I really needed was to spend a bit of time with my best mates Samantha and Jenny, who I've known for ages."
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