SPENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spending mean? 

• SPENDING (noun)
  The noun SPENDING has 2 senses:

1. the act of spending or disbursing money

2. money paid out; an amount spent

  Familiarity information: SPENDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of spending or disbursing money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending

Hypernyms ("spending" is a kind of...):

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spending"):

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

compensatory spending; deficit spending; pump priming (spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy)

Derivation:

spend (pay out)

spend (spend completely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Money paid out; an amount spent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending

Hypernyms ("spending" is a kind of...):

transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spending"):

cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)

expense (money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer)

transfer payment (a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services)

 Context examples 

Long John was hard at work going from group to group, spending himself in good advice, and as for example no man could have shown a better.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All month you seem to be spending more money than you usually do, for you have Mars moving through your second house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"I am come to see how you are spending your holiday," he said.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began to talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A patient who visits a health care facility for diagnosis or treatment without spending the night.

(Outpatient, NCI Dictionary)

It was of interest to me to hear these men, who were spending their lives in fighting against our neighbours, discussing their character and ways.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She heard of her walking with the Eltons, sitting with the Eltons, spending a day with the Eltons!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Thus they lived for two days: and when they had eaten up all there was in the cottage, the man said, Wife, we can’t go on thus, spending money and earning nothing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I don't mean the normal happiness that comes from seeing friends, receiving presents, or spending time with family members.

(NPI - Seem Too Cheerful or Too Happy for No Reason, NCI Thesaurus)

The improvement of spending a night in London was added in time, and the plan became perfect as plan could be.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)