expended; expending; expends
1
: to pay out : spend
the social services upon which public revenue is expended—
J. A. Hobson
J. A. Hobson
expender
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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
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While most of these hotels expended their purpose by the time the women’s liberation and Civil Rights movements took hold in the 1960s and ’70s, and were converted into all-gender apartment buildings or demolished, some were still in operation into the 21st century.
—Scarlett Harris, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
On Low’s side, the Golden State Leadership Fund has been the biggest spender, having expended $399,000 on his candidacy in the primary.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
Brown's Senate colleagues have expended significant effort to support his reelection campaign.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
As a correction to a culture where people expend emotional and cognitive resources to pretend everything is fine, and relationships lacked authenticity, this has been a bonus.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Scarlett Harris, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
On Low’s side, the Golden State Leadership Fund has been the biggest spender, having expended $399,000 on his candidacy in the primary.
—Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
Brown's Senate colleagues have expended significant effort to support his reelection campaign.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
As a correction to a culture where people expend emotional and cognitive resources to pretend everything is fine, and relationships lacked authenticity, this has been a bonus.
—Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for expend
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“Expend.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expend. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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