to expend
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5.0
- verb
- /ɪkˈspɛnd/
:
gastar
- She had to expend a lot of energy to complete the marathon.
- expend effort
- expend time
- expend money
And I don't think that they would expend the energy to hide themselves.
- And I don't think that they would expend the energy to hide themselves.
- All that time spent checking and checking again can obviously waste time and expend bandwidth.
- And habits are set up to help us not have to expend energy learning new things every day.
- But if for every visual task you have to expend that effort to program it, that's not good.
- So that has fuel that will be expended even when it's just taxiing over to the runway.
- Right now your energy is simply expended, doing unnecessary endless activity.
- Instead they're forced to expend their life, their labor, doing this work for the master.
- So you, the chauffeured passenger, don't have to expend your valuable energy closing a car door.
- This is something altogether different, the collapse of an empire that expended huge amounts of treasure on its army.
- And when we have to expend it just to get Jamie to make some improvements, that's bad.
- Ben and Jess have expended their kids college funds, like so many other folks to help.
- The enormous effort and extraordinary perseverance he must expend just to keep up seem to have no payoff.
Examples
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The American public clearly sees no need to expend effort and resources to achieve American hegemony.
Academic text (1999) -
Clover Park School District, Tacoma, Washington, has expended over $2 million for computers in their classrooms.
Academic text (1999) -
We try to go there and then we expend resources based on results.
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And a brain has to figure out how much resources to expend on getting additional resources.
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So what you see is a speed up over time, you know, as you expend effort that looks like this.
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With some effort, it is possible to expend all continuing funds.
Academic text (2015) -
I did not expend all these resources only to see my profits shrink.
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Some were conditions on which Alec would expend much time and effort during his medical career.
Fiction book (2000) -
Can the funds and efforts expended on it be used more effectively in other ways?
Academic text (1991) -
It didn't really make sense for me to expend a lot of money or time.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To put something to work for a purpose
∞
1.0
To give money to buy something or pay for services
948
1.0
To pay money for something you buy or use
465
3.7
Give time, effort and money to a person, project or cause
272
2.9
To spend time, effort, or care on work
191
3.2
To use up money, energy, or other resources
172
3.2
To use up resources until none are left
69
2.7
To finish all of something so nothing is left
33
4.1
Make a strong physical or mental effort
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3.1
Use up money or time quickly
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expend comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and pendere 'to weigh' or 'pay', and you can see the same root in expense. So to expend is to 'pay out' or use up money, time, or energy.