Synonyms for spend
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1. spend, pass(verb)

   pass time in a specific way

   "how are you spending your summer vacation?"

   Synonyms:
   run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, occur, die, turn over, go, slide by, fade, hand, drop, legislate, happen, egest, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, expend, transcend, make it, authorize, expire, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, snuff it, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, come about, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, travel by, glide by, extend, decease, fall, pass, pass by, clear, exit, conk, excrete, buy the farm, pass along, authorise, go along, surpass, guide, pass on

2. spend, expend, drop(verb)

   pay out

   "spend money"

   Synonyms:
   unload, fell, dribble, send packing, drop off, dismiss, drop down, sink, drip, degenerate, deteriorate, overleap, strike down, leave out, throw, cast, cut down, pretermit, put down, neglect, devolve, expend, send away, set down, flatten, pass, swing, use, shake off, throw off, throw away, dangle, drop, discharge, overlook, knock off, miss, cast off, shed, omit

3. spend(verb)

   spend completely

   "I spend my pocket money in two days"

   Synonyms:
   pass, expend, drop

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1. spend

   Synonyms:
   disperse, dissipate, divide, parcel, portion, scatter, squander, waste

   Antonyms:
   accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, store up

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1. spend

   Synonyms:
   bestow, waste, exhaust, squander, expend, lay out, consume, disburse, lavish

   Antonyms:
   retain, save, hoard, accumulate, husband, economize

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1. spend(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   expend, disburse, lay out

2. spend(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   waste, consume, exhaust, squander, dissipate, lavish, use up

3. spend(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   employ, devote, bestow, apply

4. spend(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   pass, lead

5. spend(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   lay out money, incur expense

6. spend(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   vanish, be lost, be consumed

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1. spend(v)

   Synonyms:
   expend, disburse

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1. List of paraphrases:

   devote, expend, spending, pass, dedicate, skip, respend, invest, allocate, expenditure, go, move

How to pronounce spend?

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US English

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British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use spend in a sentence?

1. Michal Kollbek:

   We are cutting the time we spend with customers to choose a saddle and cutting the time the customer is testing it.

2. Santos Chief Executive David Knox:

   That's a really important result for us, and it does mean we can reduce our capital spend.

3. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality:

   We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

4. Glen Stettin:

   Patients in these highest-spend categories are treating a complex condition along with other more common chronic conditions, such as diabetes or depression.

5. Michael Gross:

   There is a much brighter sense of optimism that the money they spend educating their child is really an investment that's going to pay off in the end.

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