Expend
English Meaning
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
- To lay out; spend: expending tax revenues on government operations. See Synonyms at spend.
- To use up; consume: "Every effort seemed to expend her spirit's force” ( George Meredith).