spending

/หˆspษ›ndษชล‹/

IPA: /S P EH1 N D IH0 NG/

noun
  1. 1

    Present participle of spend, expenditure.

  2. 2

    An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.

    โ€œexcessive spendingsโ€

verb
  1. 1

    To pay out (money).

    โ€œHe spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.โ€

  2. 2

    To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

  3. 3

    To squander.

    โ€œto spend an estate in gamblingโ€

  4. 4

    To exhaust, to wear out.

    โ€œThe violence of the waves was spent.โ€

  5. 5

    To consume, to use up (time).

    โ€œMy sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.โ€

  6. 6

    To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

    โ€œThe fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.โ€

  7. 7

    To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

    โ€œEnergy spends in the using of it.โ€

  8. 8

    To be diffused; to spread.

  9. 9

    To break ground; to continue working.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spending