Definition of: spend

(spend) v. spent, spend·ing v.t.
1. To pay out or disburse (money).
2. To expend by degrees; use up.
3. To apply or devote, as thought or effort, to some activity, purpose, etc.
4. To pass: to spend one's life in jail.
5. To lose: now chiefly in the nautical phrase to spend a mast.
6. To emit, as a milt or spawn.
—v.i.
7. To pay out or disburse money, etc.
8. Obs. To be wasted or exhausted. See synonyms under SQUANDER. [OE aspendan <L expendere EXPEND]
—spend′er noun