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[ verb ] pass in a specific way; as of time
Synonyms Examples "How are you spending your summer vacation?" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)A Houston teacher , now serving in the Legislature , proposed Thursday a law reducing the time spent learning `` educational methods '' . (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)The applicant pays the rest of the cost , but his own time spent on the work and charges for the use of equipment which he owns may be applied toward his share of the cost . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)As befits a queen , a bumblebee female is rather choosy and may spend considerable time searching for a suitable nesting_place . The female parasite spends much time in her efforts to find a nest of her host . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)After spending two nights ( Wednesday and Thursday ) in Catskill , the deputies again headed for the Vermejo to finish their business . |
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[ verb ] pay out
Examples "spend money" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas . (Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)This way of escape is theoretically possible , but since it has grave difficulties of its own and has not , so_far_as I know , been urged by positivists , it is perhaps best not to spend time over it . (John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)I 'd forgotten all about Thelma and the Kentucky_Derby and how it was Thelma 's fifty dollars I was spending . |
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[ verb ] spend completely
Synonyms Examples "I spend my pocket money in two days" Used in print (The Miami Herald,...)Less_than half the sum has been spent , since the Interama board pinched_pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations . Related terms |
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