expend
Verb
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Use up, consume fully (synset 201160888)
"The legislature expended its time on school questions"entail: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out - use up (resources or materials)subtypes:same as: use
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Pay out (synset 202271905)
"spend money"is a type of: pay - give money, usually in exchange for goods or servicessubtypes:
- 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
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