expending
- noun
- /ɪkˈspɛndɪŋ/
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gasto
- The company's expending of resources on new technology has greatly improved its efficiency.
Well, power is the rate of expending energy.
- Well, power is the rate of expending energy.
Examples
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One important consequence of such expending of financial resources has been weaker and more fragmented political systems.
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On the other hand, serious leisure requires the "development of skills and knowledge, the accumulation of experience and the expending of effort" (Stebbins, 1982, p. 267).
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Well, power is the rate of expending energy.
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We get to decide what, whom or where I'm expending my attention in any given moment.
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It is a bunch of people expending average level energy across many different things.
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They're going to have to increase expending on the people who who are losers caused by the Fed.
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For all of that work and energy expended must deliver its own reward, else everything rests upon the final product.
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Well, this slide shows here shadow images of expending Bose Einstein condensate.
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The plaintiff was awarded the profit lost on the job plus reliance expended expenses in loading the trucks.
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His expending of funds on community projects has made a positive impact on local residents.
Synonyms
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1.7
Money used to buy goods and services
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2.7
An amount of money spent for work or business
289
3.9
To use, eat, or drink something
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5.6
Money that a person or organization spends
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6.9
An amount of money spent on something
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3.7
Spending or eating something until none remains
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7.0
Money that a person or company spends
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3.9
Use of natural and economic resources like water or energy
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Morphology
Etymology
Expending comes from the Latin parts ex- ('out') and pendere ('to weigh' or 'to pay'), where people thought of 'weighing' the cost before giving money out. So, expending means 'spending' or using up money or other resources.