| 单词 | spend |
| 释义 | spend (once / 66 pages) v WORD FAMILY spend: misspend, overspend, spendable, spender, spending, spends, underspend+/misspend: misspending, misspends, misspent/overspend: overspending, overspends, overspent/spender: spenders/spending: spendings USAGE EXAMPLESUnsecured debt, including spending on credit cards, is rising at its fastest pace in 11 years, the Bank of England said. BBC(Jan 03, 2017) This sitcom returns from its winter hiatus, with the Hecks spending their New Year staving off a zombie apocalypse. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) The project also seeks to correlate those outcomes with 123 social and economic factors such as government spending, proficiency in reading and rates of incarceration. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v pass time in a specific way how are you spending your summer vacation? Syn|Hypo pass soldier serve as a soldier in the military slumspend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive weekendspend the weekend holiday, vacationspend or take a vacation do, servespend time in prison or in a labor camp get through, while awayspend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time sojournspend a certain length of time; reside temporarily overwinter, winterspend the winter summerspend the summer admitserve as a means of entrance honeymoonspend a holiday after one's marriage 2v pay out spend money Syn|Hypo|Hyper drop, expend consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out use up (resources or materials) consume, squander, ware, wastespend extravagantly affordbe able to spare or give up blowspend lavishly or wastefully on trifle away, wanton, wanton awayspend wastefully underspendspend at less than the normal rate misspendspend (money or other resources) unwisely nickel-and-dime, penny-pinchspend money frugally; spend as little as possible commit, invest, place, putmake an investment economise, economize, savespend sparingly, avoid the waste of lay outspend or invest piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton awaywaste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently misspendspend time badly or unwisely run outexhaust the supply of draindeplete of resources indulge, luxuriateenjoy to excess dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shootspend frivolously and unwisely luxuriate, wantonbecome extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously burn, burn off, burn upuse up (energy) fundinvest money in government securities lavish, showerexpend profusely; also used with abstract nouns overspendspend at a high rate tighten one's beltlive frugally and use less resources fling, splurgeindulge oneself roll overre-invest (a previous investment) into a similar fund or security shelterinvest (money) so that it is not taxable tie upinvest so as to make unavailable for other purposes job, speculateinvest at a risk exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tiredeplete buy intobuy stocks or shares of a company pay give money, usually in exchange for goods or services 3v spend completely I spend my pocket money in two days Hypo|Hyper overspend spend more than available of (a budget) underspendspend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out use up (resources or materials) |
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