EXPEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expend mean? 

• EXPEND (verb)
  The verb EXPEND has 2 senses:

1. use up, consume fully

2. pay out

  Familiarity information: EXPEND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they expend    ... he / she / it expends   
Past simple: expended   
Past participle: expended   
-ing form: expending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use up, consume fully

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

expend; use

Context example:

The legislature expended its time on school questions

"Expend" entails doing...:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expend"):

abuse (use wrongly or improperly or excessively)

spare (use frugally or carefully)

occupy; take; use up (require (time or space))

blow; squander; waste (spend thoughtlessly; throw away)

abuse; misuse; pervert (change the inherent purpose or function of something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They expend the money

Derivation:

expenditure (the act of consuming something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pay out

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

drop; expend; spend

Context example:

spend money

Hypernyms (to "expend" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "expend"):

misspend (spend time badly or unwisely)

piddle; piddle away; trifle; wanton; wanton away (waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently)

lay out (spend or invest)

economise; economize; save (spend sparingly, avoid the waste of)

commit; invest; place; put (make an investment)

nickel-and-dime; penny-pinch (spend money frugally; spend as little as possible)

misspend (spend (money or other resources) unwisely)

underspend (spend at less than the normal rate)

trifle away; wanton; wanton away (spend wastefully)

blow (spend lavishly or wastefully on)

afford (be able to spare or give up)

consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something on somebody

Derivation:

expender (someone who spends money to purchase goods or services)

expending; expenditure (the act of spending money for goods or services)

expenditure (money paid out; an amount spent)

expensive (high in price or charging high prices)

 Context examples 

People with more muscle mass expend more energy than people with less muscle mass.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

It is not for nothing that I expended an hour last night in focusing my mind upon the situation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The type of award an agency makes to support a program and within which it incorporates the terms and conditions for expending the funds and performing the work.

(Funding Mechanism, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-SI unit of energy equivalent to one kilowatt of power expended during the period of time equal to one hour.

(Kilowatt Hour, NCI Thesaurus)

As they had to sleep, and as the watches extended through the night, their whole waking time was expended in guarding Dennin.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They inventoried the required resources, then determined the economic and environmental effects of using those resources — defined in terms of energy available and expended, and normalized to cost in U.S. dollars.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

You have expended a great deal on my education, and have always been as liberal to me in all things as it was possible to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That means expending minimal amounts of energy through a reduced metabolic rate, dramatic regulation of body temperature, and navigating the world in slow motion.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

Two years ago a very large sum was smuggled through the Estimates and was expended in acquiring a monopoly of the invention.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary.

(Insurance, Health, Reimbursement, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)