the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] > cause or involve expenditure or consumption (3)
transitive. To use or occupy (space, room, etc.); to use up (a specified amount of a material or resource). Cf. to take up 1a at phrasal verbs 1.
transitive. To use up (esp. a commodity or resource); to consume.
To cause or involve expenditure of (something). Obsolete.