expendex‧pend /ɪkˈspend/ verb [transitive] 
People of different ages expend different amounts of energy. Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.expend something in/on (doing) something A great deal of time and money has been expended on creating a pleasant office atmosphere.
WORD ORIGINexpend
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin expendere ‘to weigh out, pay’, from pendere ‘to weigh’VERB TABLE
expend
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | expend |
| he, she, it | expends | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | expended |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have expended |
| he, she, it | has expended | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had expended |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will expend |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have expended |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am expending |
| he, she, it | is expending | |
| you, we, they | are expending | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was expending |
| you, we, they | were expending | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been expending |
| he, she, it | has been expending | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been expending |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be expending |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been expending |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Carrying small weights increases the calories you expend when walking for fitness.
- The final result hardly justifies the amount of time and energy that has been expended.
- We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.
- As regions specialize and expend production, they can lower their average costs.
- If we consume more energy than we expend, the surplus is stored as fat.
- It can't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it's not certain of catching.
- Recovering from the energy expended, Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.
- Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
- To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.
- To lose weight really effectively, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend each day and increase your activity level.
Longman Language Activatorto use an amount of something
to use an amount of something such as fuel, water, or food: · Who's used all the hot water?· We use about six pints of milk a week.· Planning is essential to make sure that resources are used effectively.· The average Westerner uses over 260 lbs of paper every year.
to use all of something, so that there is none left: use up something: · We should use up everything in the fridge before we go on vacation.· The country's oil reserves will soon be used up.use something up: · That is to say, once we have used our fossil fuels up, there won't be any more.
formal to use fuel, energy, water, and other natural products - use this especially to talk about the amount of fuel, energy etc used by people in general: · The US imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.· Industrialized countries consume natural resources in huge quantities.
to use a large amount of something in a short period: · Sometimes I go through a whole pack of cigarettes in a single afternoon.· We went through our food supplies at an alarming rate.
to use a lot of something, especially energy or fuel: · In the typical Western diet, all the energy in protein is burned up daily.burn up calories (=to use energy, for example by exercising): · Women tend to burn up calories less efficiently than men.
if something eats up money, gas, electricity etc, it uses it very quickly and in large amounts: · My rent eats up most of my money.· Non-energy saving light bulbs just eat up electricity.· The V8 is a very powerful engine, but it really eats up gas.
to use space or time, especially a lot of it: · Filing cabinets are very useful but they take up a lot of space.· I'll go now - I don't want to take up too much of your time.
formal: expend energy/time/effort etc to use energy, time etc when you are doing something, usually too much of it: · The final result hardly justifies the amount of time and energy that has been expended.expend something on/upon something: · We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY People of different ages expend different amounts of energy. Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
People of different ages expend different amounts of energy. Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.· Carers expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in this role.· Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.· Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time, effort and paper.
· Therefore such burrows give you a greater return for the effort expended.· Program evaluation is concerned specifically with determining the worth or values of efforts expended to achieve a given purpose or objective.· It's just a pity that all that effort you expended was wasted really.· No matter how much effort was expended, all intention was governed by the second law of thermodynamics.· Motivation is therefore a causal relationship between effort expended, the performance attained and the reward related to the performance.
· Recovering from the energy expended, Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.· To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.· If we consume more energy than we expend, the surplus is stored as fat.· To date, a lot of energy has been expended but successes have been limited.· As more time and energy is expended there is more exposure to critical evaluation.· Guilt also plays a part in the energy expended.· You know the kind of energy you have to expend to be that?
· Rather the focus was again upon expending the money more judiciously.
· Rather than expending vast sums on political posturing, we may in-stead choose to invest in potentially profitable space enterprises.· Plunging in with both feet and expending large sums on equipment and delicate fishes will almost always result in failure and disappointment.
· The husband can feel abandoned, and expend more of his time and energy in his work.· Now, I expend considerable time and thought on recruiting and interviewing.· Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.· The best way to create solid structure without expending extra editing time is through the fast and simple process of listing.· Users and manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to find ways to improve computer security.
WORD FAMILYnounexpenditureexpenseexpensesadjectiveexpensive ≠ inexpensiveverbexpendadverbexpensively ≠ inexpensively
to use or spend a lot of energy etc in order to do somethingexpend energy/effort/time/resources etc People of different ages expend different amounts of energy. Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.expend something in/on (doing) something A great deal of time and money has been expended on creating a pleasant office atmosphere.