Spend

/spɛnd/

Synonyms for "spend" (169 found)

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Closest matches (34)

ablate absorb allot assign assimilateattend to businessbe exposed tobe subjected tobestowbleed whiteblow budgetburn upbusyconsecrate toconsult consume contribute costcost out

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dedicate todeplete devote

Noun(6 words)

burns consume consumingcontent area l1 usecost devote

Verb(4 words)

consumes dedicate dedicatingdevote hours

Adjective(1 words)

dedicated

Strong matches (51)

Verb(6 words)

devote lab hoursdevotes drop expend expended expends

Noun(9 words)

devoting disburse eats expend expending expenditure expense guzzle guzzling

digest disbursedish outdissipate draindrain of resourcesdrop eateat upemploy encounter endure engage erode exhaust expend experience feel finishfinish off

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fork outfritter awaygivegive over togive togogo throughgobblegobble uphand outhave impoverishincur costsingest

Adjective(2 words)

fine powder usehot exhaust

Related words (84)

invest kill knowlabor underlavishlay outlead live lose meetmeet up withmeet withmind the storeoccupyopen the purseoutlay passpass the timepass throughpay

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pay outprodigal profligateput input outrunrun throughrun up againstschedule serve shellshell outsink money inspend the timespender spill splurge squander squandererstand undersuck drysuffer sustain swallowswallow uptastethrow awaythrow money aroundundergouse upwastewaste awaywaster wastethrift wastrelwear awaywhilewhile awaywile

Verb(11 words)

invests lavished lavishes lavishing outlaid outlaying overspend pass put weekended worsen

Noun(14 words)

money occupy outlay outlays pay plunks pouring shells spending splashtear throughuse upuses of manufactured materialutilize

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More general

16 entries

consume cost deplete eateat upexhaust expend expenditure expense payresource userun throughtime useuseuse upwipe out

More specific

9 entries

allocate timecapital spenddevote timeexert effortexpend caloriesoperating spendresearch spendspend cashspend funds

Collocations

6 entries

annual spendcapital spendoperating spendspend analysisspend managementspend on education

Inflections

1 entries

spends

Derivations

4 entries

spendable spendably spender spending

Sample sentences

31 total sentences available.

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I don't want to spend the rest of my life regretting it.

Source: tatoeba (1598)

Prime numbers are like life; they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it.

Source: tatoeba (1844)

My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

Source: tatoeba (2286)

In business today, too many executives spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they don't even like.

Source: tatoeba (2363)

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