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. Emily Butler:

   I was concerned they might close the exhibit altogether, this is the one place in Cincinnati we've always come to spend time with our kids.

2. William James:

   The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

3. Clarence Graham:

   So 'jail, no bail' gave us an opportunity to be arrested, spend the 30 days in jail without paying the money. In so doing, it would help keep the money in our treasury and not swell the treasury of the city and the county, after that, it caught on. By summer, you had kids from all over the country filling the jailhouses up.

4. Marco Rubio:

   Look, this is a pattern. This is a game he plays. He says something that's edgy and outrageous and then the media flocks and covers that and then no one else can get any coverage on anything else, and that worked when there were 15 people running for president. It's not going to work anymore. I'm going to spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility.

5. Chiara Scaglia:

   The perception of the lingerie sector has changed, at the beginning many people we spoke to were confused as to why anybody should spend over $1,000 on panties for something nobody sees.

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