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Definition of Spend
Spend
To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.

To bestow; to employ; -- often with on or upon.

To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.

To pass, as time; to suffer to pass away; as, to spend a day idly; to spend winter abroad.

To exhaust of force or strength; to waste; to wear away; as, the violence of the waves was spent.

To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.

To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.

To be diffused; to spread.

To break ground; to continue working.

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett



Spend Translations
spend in Afrikaans is oordra, deurbring, spandeer, aangee
spend in Danish is give ud
spend in Dutch is besteden, spenderen, spanderen
spend in German is verbringen, verbringen, aufwenden
spend in Italian is emettere, passare, largire
spend in Latin is obduco, prodigo
spend in Portuguese is gaste, gastar
spend in Spanish is expender, pasar


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