expend

Borrowed from Latin expendō (“I weigh; I pay out”). Doublet of spend.

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛnd/, /ɛkˈspɛnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd

expend (third-person singular simple present expends, present participle expending, simple past and past participle expended)

1. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     If my death might make this island happy […]
     I would expend it with all willingness.

   • 1962 December, “Beyond the Channel: Switzerland: Federal Railways' progress”, in Modern Railways, page 416:

     To handle the unceasing traffic increase, immense sums of money are being expended in dealing with bottlenecks.

• expenditure
• expense
• expensive

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