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Definition of Expending
1. Noun. The act of spending money for goods or services.
Generic synonyms: Disbursal, Disbursement, Outlay, Spending
Derivative terms: Expend, Expend
Definition of Expending
1. Verb. (present participle of expend) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expending
1. expend [v] - See also: expend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expending
Literary usage of Expending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"... and after expending two days in negotiation, (the particulars of which do not
appear,) the Resident not receiving the satisfaction he looked for, ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"On the other hand, Conrad had a double motive in expending so much money in
prosecuting the accused. He is the sort of a man who will follow the person for ..."
3. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853)
"... sums are expending upon the erection of new churches, a very inconsiderable
fraction of which would improve those sacred edifices, and effectually ..."
4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1885)
"Mr. T, C. HORSFALL contributed a Paper on the question, ' Are Local Governing
Bodies justified in expending large sums of Public Money for the purpose of ..."
5. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1898)
"... that therefore writs of error are to be brought here SOLARTE expending the
time of the suitors, which is the time of the PALMER. country; ..."
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