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spends

noun

Meaning

  • Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.

    "I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month."

  • (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.

  • Discharged semen.

  • Vaginal discharge.

verb

Meaning

  • To pay out (money).

    "He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper."

  • To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

  • To squander.

    "to spend an estate in gambling"

  • To exhaust, to wear out.

    "The violence of the waves was spent."

  • To consume, to use up (time).

    "My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs."

  • To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

    "The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen."

  • To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

    "Energy spends in the using of it."

  • To be diffused; to spread.

  • To break ground; to continue working.