- pay out
"spend money"

- spend completely
"I spend my pocket money in two days"

- pass (time) in a specific way
"How are you spending your summer vacation?"

1. To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

"Spend thou that in the town." -- Shak.

"Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?" -- Isa. lv. 2.

2. To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

"I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment." -- Herbert.

3. To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

4. To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

"We spend our years as a tale that is told." -- Ps. xc. 9.

5. To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

"Their bodies spent with long labor and thirst." -- Knolles.

1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

"He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning." -- South.

2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

"The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air." -- Bacon.

3. To be diffused; to spread.

"The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes." -- Bacon.

4. (Mining) To break ground; to continue working.