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(spends, spending, spent) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. 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. VERB: V n, V n -ing, V amount/n on n, V-ed • spending Government spending is expected to fall. = expenditure N-UNCOUNT 2. 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. VERB: V n -ing, V n -ing 3. 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. VERB: V n adv/prep 4. 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. N-COUNT
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verb (spent; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English -~an, from Medieval Latin expendere to disburse, use up, from Latin, to measure by weight, pay out — more at expend Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to use up or pay out ; expend 2. a. exhaust, wear out the hurricane gradually spent itself b. to consume wastefully ; squander the waters are not ours to ~ — J. R. Ellis 3. to cause or permit to elapse ; pass ~ the night 4. give up, sacrifice intransitive verb 1. to expend or waste wealth or strength 2. to become expended or consumed 3. to have an orgasm • ~able adjective • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (past and past part. spent) 1 (usu. foll. by on) a (also absol.) pay out (money) in making a purchase etc. (spent {pound}5 on a new pen). b pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of a thing (had to spend {pound}200 on the car). 2 a use or consume (time or energy) (shall spend no more effort; how do you spend your Sundays?). b (also refl.) use up; exhaust; wear out (their ammunition was all spent; his anger was soon spent; spent herself campaigning for justice). 3 tr. (as spent adj.) having lost its original force or strength; exhausted (the storm is spent; spent bullets). Phrases and idioms spending money pocket money. spend a penny Brit. colloq. urinate or defecate (from the coin-operated locks of public lavatories). Derivatives spendable adj. spender n. Etymology: OE spendan f. L expendere (see EXPEND): in ME perh. also f. obs. dispend f. OF despendre expend f. L dispendere: see DISPENSE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. тратить, растрачивать, расходовать to spend money —- тратить деньги to spend labour —- затрачивать труд to spend much money on foolish pleasures —- тратиться на пустяковые развлечения to spend much trouble on smth. —- тратить много усилий на что-либо to spend oneself in vain endeavour —- тратить силы на безнадежное дело she spent herself for her children —- он всю себя отдала детям he spends money like water —- он сорит деньгами, он транжирит деньги 2. нести издержки нести материальные затраты to spend on books —- тратиться на книги to spend for public purposes —- делать затраты на общественные нужды 3. проводить (время) to spend one's time in reading —- проводить время за чтением to spend the winter in the south —- провести зиму на юге spend a week with ua! —- останьтесь у нас на недельку! a life honestly spent —- честно прожитая жизнь 4. исчерпывать, истощать our ammunition was all spent —- у нас кончились боеприпасы the day is far spend —- день на исходе the fury of the storm is spent —- буря стихает the war has spent its force —- война уже на исходе the bullet has spent its force —- пуля на излете 5. истощаться to spend oneself —- иссякать his anger has spent itself —- его гнев утих grandually the hurricane spent itself —- ураган постепенно стих 6. изливать they spent their fury on the dog —- они сорвали свою злость на собаке 7. редк. нести потери, терять to spend a mast —- мор. терять мачту Id: to spend a...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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breath говорить на ветер, попусту тратить слова SPEND v. 1) тратить, расходовать (for/on); to spend much trouble on smth. - тратить немало труда на что-л. 2) проводить (время) (in); to spend a sleepless night - провести бессонную ночь 3) истощать; to spend oneself - устать, вымотаться; the storm has spent itself - буря улеглась 4) naut. потерять (мачту) Syn: see weaken ...Англо-русский словарь
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past tense and past participle spent ~ v 1 »MONEY« to use your money to buy or pay for things (spend money/-5/$10/a lot) (I spent so much money this weekend! | spend money etc on sth) (More money should be spent on health and education. | spend money etc on sb (=buy things for someone)) (Cecilia spends far too much money on those spoilt kids of hers. | money well spent (=a sensible way of spending money)) (The repairs cost a lot, but it's money well spent.) 2 »TIME« to pass or use time (spend time in/with etc) (We'll have to spend the night in a hotel. | I want to spend more time with my family. | spend time doing sth) (Much of my time is spent studying financial reports.) 3 spend the night with to stay for the night and have sex with someone 4 »FORCE/EFFORT« literary to use all of something (The storm had spent its force.) 5 spend a penny BrE spoken an expression meaning to urinate, used when you want to avoid saying this directly (I need to spend a penny - where are the loos?) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from L. expendere "to expand." Spendthrift first recorded 1601, from thrift in sense of "savings, profits, wealth;" replaced earlier scattergood (1577) and spend-all (1553). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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