American English pronunciation
How to pronounce expend
IPA transcription: [ɪks'pɛnd]
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Verb
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pay out
“spend money”
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use up, consume fully
“The legislature expended its time on school questions”
Usage examples
- Great Britain would agree to reduce public expenditures and reduce taxes.
- The Court did not, however, uphold limits on independent expenditures.
- Of eight torpedoes expended during these actions, all missed their targets.
- If so, real expenditure on physical capital and durable consumer goods can be affected.
- Examples of discretionary costs are advertising, machine maintenance, and research and development expenditures.
- The financial affairs of the university, its receipts and expenditures, were put in order.
- To estimate energy expenditure from the exhaled gases, several algorithms were developed.
- Health economists evaluate multiple types of financial information: costs, charges and expenditures.
- He instituted immediate economies in Vatican expenditures.
- Also, serving waterways which freeze over in winter required a high capital expenditure.