SPENDS Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

spends

verb

present tense third-person singular of spend

as in pays

to hand over or use up in payment I always end up spending too much money at the mall

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as in consumes

to make complete use of the town has already spent its budget for snow removal, and it's only January

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as in loses

to use up carelessly spent all his energy on impractical schemes

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Recent Examples of spends The couple spends time with her twice a month, taking her on adventures to the Oregon Zoo, roller skating and the park. — Noelle Crombie, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026 Huang is also a prominent critic of American restrictions on chip sales, and Nvidia spends a formidable amount lobbying in Washington. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 10 Nov. 2026 Anybody who spends time at the off-road park will tell you that side-by-sides are everywhere. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 10 Nov. 2026 The world spends enormous sums on teachers, infrastructure, and enrollment drives. — MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026 Money in the Baby Fund will stay in the Baby Fund until the City spends it for the benefit of families with newborns. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 Lenni, a child welfare worker and divorced mother of two, spends her days fighting for other people’s families while her own is in a constant state of hilarious chaos. — Peter White, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026 The British manufacturer may have realized that the typical Tiger 1200 spends considerably more time eating up highway miles, tackling daily commutes and wandering along the occasional gravel track than navigating genuinely challenging terrain. — New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026 The number is what gets you into a socialized system that spends a quarter of what America costs per person and still has an average life expectancy of five more years. — Mariska Breland, STAT, 4 Nov. 2026

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Translate your performance into a unit of value finance already pays for.

— Masha Khmel, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Survivorship life policies, also known as second-to-die insurance, cover two people, typically spouses, and pays the death benefit after the second person dies.

— Dan Avery, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of pays

Verb

Memory maintenance consumes computing resources, and excessive information can overwhelm future sessions.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
In this conception of macroeconomics, the economy consists of a massive input-output table where every cell in the matrix is a sector that consumes other cells’ outputs and provides inputs to other producers.

— Oliver Melton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of consumes

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But if the aircraft also loses access to reliable navigation data, the situation can become considerably more complicated.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
Blood sugar can rise again, particularly if someone regains weight or their pancreas loses more of its ability to produce insulin.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of loses

Verb

Hemphill says doing the main pruning in spring prevents winter damage to tender young shoots and gives them a clean start for the new season.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Nov. 2026
Cocktails here are pretty and punchy, and the open-air setting gives it a truly Mediterranean vibe.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of gives

Verb

That pretty much exhausts the points of agreement between the pro- and anti-Proposition 40 camps.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Instead of occupying both sides with large cooling vents, air enters toward the front of the station and exhausts through the rear.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhausts

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Those surpluses initially built a miniscule reserve into a record-setting one, but they mainly have been used to shrink Connecticut’s hefty pension debt, a $30 billion-plus problem that still drains resources from other programs.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 Nov. 2026
Since 2024, the Kanta Keepers cooperative has become integral to transporting waste between retailers and upcyclers, to maximize value and profit on every front, while improving flood resilience by keeping aisles and drains clear of waste.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026