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Definition of Expend
1. Verb. Use up, consume fully. "They expend the money "; "The legislature expended its time on school questions"
Specialized synonyms: Abuse, Misuse, Pervert, Abuse, Spare, Occupy, Take, Use Up, Blow, Squander, Waste
Entails: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Run Through, Use Up, Wipe Out
Derivative terms: Expenditure, Use
Also: Use Up
2. Verb. Pay out. "They expend the money "; "Spend money"
Specialized synonyms: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Run Through, Use Up, Wipe Out, Consume, Squander, Ware, Waste, Afford, Blow, Trifle Away, Wanton, Wanton Away, Underspend, Misspend, Nickel-and-dime, Penny-pinch, Commit, Invest, Place, Put, Economise, Economize, Save, Lay Out, Piddle, Piddle Away, Trifle, Wanton, Wanton Away, Misspend
Generic synonyms: Pay
Derivative terms: Expender, Expending, Expenditure, Expenditure, Expensive, Spender, Spending
Definition of Expend
1. v. t. To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
2. v. i. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
Definition of Expend
1. Verb. To consume or exhaust some resource. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive rare) To spend or disburse money. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expend
1. to use up [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expend
Literary usage of Expend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"And it would seem that the company .might expend their funds, to a reasonable
amount, in resisting proceedings in parliament the tendency of which will be ..."
2. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"... might thereafter expend on the parish church of Bradford, and then stated a
demand and refusal of the proportion of the rate payable by the defendants. ..."
3. Fifty Years on the Mississippi; Or, Gould's History of River Navigation by Emerson W. Gould (1889)
"HOW TO expend $<SOO,000. The distance from the mouth of ... the use of the present
appropriation and expend it in doing what is known to be practical work, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"$120000 is appropriated for the purchase and distribution of seeds, and the
Secretary is directed to expend the appropriation. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"At the same time he may be hall' inclined to regret the prodigality of the genius
which could expend its powers so lavishly upon a hoax. ..."
6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, House of representatives, United States, Congress (1907)
"... entitled 'An act to extend the time for the Davenport, Middleburgh and Durham
Railroad Company to begin the construction of its road and expend thereon ..."
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