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Definition of expend
expender
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Examples of expend in a Sentence
Are we willing to expend the time and resources required to solve the problem?
redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house
Recent Examples of expend from the Web
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Robyn Bryan, a spokeswoman with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, said any essential personnel working Monday would bank their holiday, and expend it during the next week or so.
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However, the village has expended nearly all of its funds to local businesses.
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To despise someone, after all, is to care enough to expend energy on them.
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Over the years, and especially since 2010, the conservative movement intelligentsia has expended a great deal of energy on developing alternatives to Obamacare.
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Moreover, the study states that ancient humans simply didn’t find cats as useful as dogs, so there was less reason to expend the effort required to domesticate them.
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To be both artist and activist, to expend oneself in both places, on the page and in the world, is the duty of the writer.
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The movie is long for an animated feature, and expends a great deal of time trying to integrate original characters into a story that doesn’t need them.
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This is hardly the place to expend America’s finite national anxiety.
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Origin and Etymology of expend
Middle English, from Latin expendere to weigh out, expend, from ex- + pendere to weigh — more at spin
EXPEND Defined for English Language Learners
expend
playDefinition of expend for English Language Learners
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: to use or spend (something)
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: to use (time, energy, effort, etc.) for a particular purpose
EXPEND Defined for Kids
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