Definitions for spends

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Spelling: [spend]

IPA: /spɛnd/

Spends is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in spends (denpss).

Definitions for spends

verb (used with object)

1. to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
2. to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding:
3. to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.:
4. to use up, consume, or exhaust:
5. to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.
6. to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.):
7. to employ (labor, thought, words, time, etc.), as on some object or in some proceeding:
8. to pass (time) in a particular manner, place, etc.:
9. to use up, consume, or exhaust:
10. to give (one's blood, life, etc.) for some cause.

verb (used without object)

1. to spend money, energy, time, etc.
2. Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.
3. to spend money, energy, time, etc.
4. Obsolete. to be consumed or exhausted.

Origin of spends

1125-75; Middle English spenden, continuing Old English -spendan (in āspendan, forspendan to spend entirely or utterly) West Germanic Latin expendere to pay out, expend

Examples for spends

Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

Instead, I spend much of my time criticizing my fellow atheists.

Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.

Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.

And so to-night I am going to spend them, not prudently on bread, but prodigally on beer.

He is expected to spend the next few days closeted with lawyers and advisers at his home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.

They waste the time one should spend in making them come true.

"To come home and read, or spend a social evening with a friend," George answered.

He ran over in his mind the friends with whom he could spend the time agreeably.

Prosecutors wanted him to spend at least 10 years behind bars.

Say, Myrtle, on the dead, he spends money just like a young Jew trying to be white!

The Economist has calculated that it spends $170 billion annually in the United States alone.

The Queen is still in Scotland, where she spends her summer holiday.

But throughout it all, Ryan learns the true meaning of the holidays and spends it with family.

And when your husband earns anything he spends it in drink, I suppose?

Every woman has money of her own, and spends it for jewelry.

We see the effects of a state that spends more money per capita on prisons than it does on education.

I think he spends hours in that boat, and what he does I can't conceive.

They feed the mind, to be sure, but also help him get through the interminable hours he spends on planes.

She spends some time in her own house, but is often away visiting other Temples.