spend

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♦♦♦ spend /sp'end/ (spends spending spent)
1 [VERB] V n, V n -ing, V amount/n on n, V-ed
When you spend money, you pay money for things that you want.
By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money...
Businessmen spend enormous amounts advertising their products...
Juventus have spent £23m on new players...
The survey may cost at least £100 but is money well spent.
● spending [N-UNCOUNT]
Government spending is expected to fall.
= expenditure
2 [VERB] V n -ing, V n -ing
If you spend time or energy doing something, you use your time or effort doing it.
Engineers spend much time and energy developing brilliant solutions...
This energy could be much better spent taking some positive action.
3 [VERB] V n adv/prep
If you spend a period of time in a place, you stay there for a period of time.
We spent the night in a hotel.
4 [N-COUNT]
The spend on a particular thing is the amount of money that is spent on it, or will be spent. (BUSINESS)
...the marketing and advertising spend.

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