Usually means: Use money to acquire something.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word spend:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spend: Merriam-Webster
  3. spend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spend: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spend: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spend, spend: Wordnik
  8. spend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spend: Wiktionary
  10. spend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spend: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spend: Dictionary.com
  14. spend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spend (The Walking Dead), Spend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spend: Rhymezone
  20. spend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spend: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. spend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. spend: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. spend: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spend: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spend, spend: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spend: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spendable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
verb:  To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
verb:  (dated) To squander.
verb:  To exhaust, to wear out.
verb:  To consume, to use up (time).
verb:  (dated, ambitransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
verb:  (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
verb:  To be diffused; to spread.
verb:  (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
noun:  Amount of money spent (during a period); expenditure.
noun:  (in the plural) Expenditures; money or pocket money.
noun:  Discharged semen.
noun:  Vaginal discharge.

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