"spend" | Definition and Related Words

spend

Verb

Use up a period of time in a specific way (synset 202714280)
"how are you spending your summer vacation?"
subtypes:
- soldier - serve as a soldier in the military
- slum - spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
- weekend - spend the weekend
- holiday, vacation - spend or take a vacation
- do, serve - spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- get through, while away - spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
- sojourn - spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily
- overwinter, winter - spend the winter
- summer - spend the summer
same as: pass
Pay out (synset 202271905)
"spend money"

is a type of: pay - give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
subtypes:
- consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out - use up (resources or materials)
- consume, squander, ware, waste - spend extravagantly
- afford - be able to spare or give up
- blow - spend lavishly or wastefully on
- trifle away, wanton, wanton away - spend wastefully
- underspend - spend at less than the normal rate
- misspend - spend (money or other resources) unwisely
- nickel-and-dime, penny-pinch - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
- commit, invest, place, put - make an investment
- economise, economize, save - spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- lay out - spend or invest
- piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away - waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- misspend - spend time badly or unwisely
same as: drop, expend
Spend completely (synset 202272374)
"I spend my pocket money in two days"

is a type of: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out - use up (resources or materials)
subtypes:
- overspend - spend more than available of (a budget)
- underspend - spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example)

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