spendingn.1
/ˈspɛndɪŋ/ 1. in extended use.1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 1511 For whom I had..so gret ado Or I hir gat with spendyng of my blood.
a. The disbursing, expending, paying out or away of money, etc.; expenditure. †at other spending, at another's expense.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun]
spendingc1000
spening1297
dispensec1320
costc1325
dispendingc1340
dispensationa1387
expense1393
depance1450
waringc1480
spensea1538
bestowing?1542
expending1545
defrayment1547
dispensing1548
disbursing1564
disbursal1589
debursing1598
disbursementa1599
disburse1608
depursement1636
debursement1650
dispension1658
spenda1688
disbursage1721
finances1730
expenditure1769
outlay1798
dispenditure1857
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adverb] > at another's expense
at other spending1338
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 556 Sum underfehþ eorðlice æhta, and se sceal ðæs pundes spendunge Gode agifan of his æhtum.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 280 First he was a kyng, now is he soudioure, & is at oþer spendyng bonden in þe toure.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 197 But owre spences and spendynge sprynge of a trewe wille, Elles is al owre laboure loste.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 67 [Be] Curteys of language, in spendyng mesurable.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 63 Be nocht a wreche nor skerche in ȝour spending.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. xxvi. 69 b Not remembring the trouble of his spirite, neyther yet the spending of his treasure.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Coronation Solyman 90 in Trav. Persia According to the usual rate of their spending.
1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 111 My income, management, and spending.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 177 It was na for his spending,..for he just had a mutton-chop and a mug of ale.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvi. 230 There was a deal of spending in two thousand pounds.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 324 There was nothing..but..spending of money.
b. An instance or occasion of this; an amount spent.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > instance or amount of
expense1382
reparation1421
spending1617
1617 B. Rich Irish Hubbub 46 319375. pounds all spent in smoake, besides priuate spendings.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 31 Dec. (1972) VII. 425 My spendings this year have exceeded my spendings the last, by 644l.
a. That which may be expended or spent; means of support; goods, money, cash. Obsolete (frequently in the 15th cent.).
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
a1290 S. Eustace 209 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 215 Swinken and sweten he moste þo, Wor [= for] his spending wes al at-go.
c1325 Deo Gratias 33 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 129 Whon .i. hedde spendyng here bifore, Þer wolde no felauschupe founde me fro.
1436 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 166 They loste here goode, here mone, and spendynge.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xi. xi. 587 Whanne she was awaked she sente a squyer after them with spendynge ynough.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 171 Laik of spending dois him spure.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 417 The money furnished him spending till he came to London.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > payments in produce or goods
fodder corn1222
wood-tale1235
malt-gavel?a1375
ground-bird1560
avenage1594
spendinga1599
stent oil1614
aver-corn1670
booting-corn1670
brennage1753
truncage1893
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 24 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The which is a common use amongst the Land-lords of the Irish, to have a common spending upon their Tennants.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 25 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) They..are loath to yeeld any certaine Rent, but only such spendings.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 178 Irish exactions..Cuttings, Tallages, or Spendings.
3. The action of using or employing, of using up or consuming, in later use esp. as food.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun]
spendinga1430
use1440
consumptionc1522
abuse1539
spensec1547
abusinga1555
waste1569
expense1593
dispendium1648
expenditure1812
using-up1863
a1430 Octouian 376 Both thys chylde and thy palfray, Thou most here lete thys ylke day To owre spendyng.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 267 Off the wrang spending of my wittis five.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 51v Whom fansy perswadeth..to haue for his spending, sufficient of hopps.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 133 Others to bring him wood for his house spending.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. 77 As for the Fruits that are for the spending both during the End of Autumn, and all the whole Winter.
1709 W. Dampier Contin. Voy. New-Holland i. 24 The Fish or Flesh that they take, besides what serves for present spending, they dry on a Barbacue.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 ii. 14 They made excellent pork for family spending.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 150 The turnip or root land..is ploughed and planted as opportunity offers up to Christmas..; the spending and carting off requiring time.
4. † b. Obsolete slang. An orgasm; an ejaculation. Cf. spend v.1 15c.
a. The action or fact of losing, destroying, exhausting, etc.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys
baneOE
losera1340
leeserc1380
stroyerc1380
destroyer1382
ravenerc1390
castera1400
confounder1401
wastera1425
stroyc1440
undoerc1440
unmakerc1450
confounderess1509
hydraa1513
stroy-good1540
abolisher1548
thunderbolt1559
disannullera1572
stroy-all1573
ruiner1581
down-puller1583
murdererc1585
spendingc1595
blaster1598
assassin1609
ruinater1609
dissolver1611
minerc1614
destructioner1621
fordoer1631
sinker1632
destructive1640
deletery1642
assassinatea1658
ruinator1658
destroyeress1662
destructora1691
dissolvent1835
solvent1841
wrecker1882
destructant1889
society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun] > carrying away of masts
spendingc1595
dismasture1781
dismastment1828
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] > using up completely
exhausting1539
spendingc1595
exhausture1611
exhaustment1621
dehaust1654
depletion1656
exhaustion1831
c1595 Capt. Wyatt in G. F. Warner Voy. R. Dudley to W. Indies (1899) 54 When wee expected nothing less then..breakinge of shrowdes, spendinge of mastes, springinge of plankes.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos Prol., in Terence in Eng. 194 To the spending of my spirits and wasting of my bodie.
1605 Journ. Earl Nottingham in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 540 Had not the hoy..by spending of her mast..caused a longer abode.
1680 Bp. G. Burnet Some Passages Life Rochester (1692) 21 He was fully perswaded that Death was not the spending or dissolution of the soul.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 54 Be careful to rub a little dry Earth upon the Wound where you cut them,..to prevent their spending of themselves too much, which these Trees are very subject to do.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > orgasm
happy ending1748
orgasm1754
spending1856
climax1873
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > ejaculation
emission1646
spending1856
ejaculation1888
coming1966
1856 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 242 The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings.
1879–80 Pearl (1970) 15 She came again in another luscious flood of spendings.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > bark > barking
barkingc1300
baffing1401
wappingc1440
bawling1555
spending1615
yapping1668
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. i. 7 If you would have your Kennell for sweetnesse of cry, then you must compound it of some large dogges, that haue deepe solempe mouthes, and are swift in spending, which must as it were beare the base in the consort.
6. The pouring or rushing of water.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > pouring or rushing
spending1847
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems (1857) 156 I see the inundation sweet, I hear the spending of the stream.
7. In the sense ‘of or pertaining to expenditure or disbursement’, as spending-power, spending spree, spending tax.
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1930 Economist 13 Sept. 477/1 Economy appeared to be denounced as a ‘policy of stagnation’ and the dangerous line of ‘increased spending-power’ once more held out as a remedial policy.
1942 Time 7 Sept. 94/3 The Senate Finance committee..pondered a new Treasury proposal for a ‘spending tax’ designed to encourage war savings.
1956 A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 140 We are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels... How long can this spending spree go on?
1968 Punch 23 Oct. 563/1 At the back of my mind there is a tiny doubt about the feasibility of the Spending Tax.
1980 ‘R. B. Dominic’ Attending Physician xvi. 144 You're not going on a spending spree with all that loot, are you?
Compounds
C1. attributive in the sense ‘used or available for ordinary expenditure or consumption’, as spending-brass, spending-silver (= spending-money n.), spending income.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > spending- or pocket-money
spending-silver1377
dispense1382
dispending1487
spending-money1598
pocket money1625
pin money1702
pocket allowance1726
Saturday pennya1854
spense1886
spend1970
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > personal income or acquired wealth > types of generally
fixed income1858
spending income1862
middle income1889
unearned income1889
psychic income1904
disregard1940
disposable income1948
society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 278 Spera in deo speketh of prestes þat haue no spendyng syluer.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale 7 And spending silver had he right y-nough.
c1510 Gest Robyn Hode ccxlv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v For of thy spendynge-syluer, monke, Thereof wyll I ryght none.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 321 I'll take care o' the bits o' claes, and what spending siller she maun hae.
1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. xi A man should certainly not apportion more than a seventh of his spending income to his house rent.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver iv. 38 He had a great deal more ‘spending-brass’ nor I could handle.
C2.
spending-cheese n. (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > ordinary cheese
spending-cheesea1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spending-cheese, a cheese of a middling quality, used for family consumption in the dairy districts of Suffolk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
spendingn.2
? Obsolete.
A crossbar forming part of the bottom of a coal-corf.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material > part of
sole-tree1653
spending1797
tub-wheel1815
rider1881
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 16 Flags for the corf bottom, of Oak..; bars or spendings of Oak.
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 19 This plate is nailed under the spending of the corf.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
spendingadj.
That spends, in various senses of the verb.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > spending
spending1589
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely
suckingc1440
spending1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 245 It is decent to be..in houshold expence pinching and sparing, in publicke entertainement spending and pompous.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 261 A sparing father, and a spending son.
1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized i. xvii. 147 If this were not so..the self-denial, spending duties, and sharp sufferings of the people of God, would turn to their damage.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 203 Soul troubles are spending and wasting troubles.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 7 Aug. 6/4 I am an industrious man; I am not a spending man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1c1000
n.21797
adj.1589