spend

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  1. transitive verb To use up or put out; expend: spent an hour exercising.
  2. transitive verb To pay out (money).
  3. transitive verb To wear out; exhaust: The storm finally spent itself.

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  • Regardless of whether tax-and-spend is better / worse than cut-taxes-and-spend, the situation we find ourselves in today is precisely because spending never seems to drop, not because tax rates go up and down. —  QandO
  • Won't spend has given way to can't spend which is the opposite of stimulus. —  The Reality Check
  • The dinner-service spend has been replaced by the £600 handbag spend, as high-end Western china manufacturers have been relegated to a back seat in the global luxury-brands boom of the last 10 years. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Hose down your debt then you can start saving and spend which is "Economy and Saving comes before whatever it is" —  CTV News RSS Feed
  • The simplified logic is that extravagant spenders will save when times are difficult but extravagant savers are unlikely to spend, which is necessary for their national economies. —  The Heritage Foundation Papers
 

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expenditure ·  budget ·  investment ·  revenue ·  saving ·  inflation ·  tax ·  consumption ·  cost ·  finance ·  productivity ·  debt

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spend:   spending ·  Spent ·  Spend ·  spent ·  spends
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English spenden, partly from Old English -spendan (from Latin expendēre, to expend; see expend) and partly from Old French despendre, to weigh out; see dispense.

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  1. A variant of spen.
 

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