spend

spend
(past and past participle spent )
[with obj.]

pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services[no obj.]
用钱（购物，租物，支付服务费），花费
the firm has spent £100,000 on hardware and software.
公司花了10万英镑购买硬件和软件。
■pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something
（为扩大某人利益或改善情况）花钱
the college spent ￡140 on each of its students.
学院为每个学生花了140英镑。
■used to show the activity in which someone is engaged or the place where they are living over a period of time
花时间（做某事）；度过
she spent a lot of time travelling.
她花大量时间旅行。
■use or give out the whole of; exhaust
用尽，耗尽
she couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money.
她不能再买任何东西了，因为她已经把钱都花光了。
the initial surge of interest had spent itself.
最初狂热般的兴趣势头已尽。

noun

(informal)an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time
(非正式)（用于某一目的的，某一时期内的）支出，开销，花费
the average spend at the cafe is £10 a head.
在这家咖啡馆的平均消费约为每人10英镑。

常用词组
spend a penny

(Brit. informal)urinate (used euphemistically)
(英，非正式，婉)小便

派生
spendable
adjective
spender
noun
语源

Old English spendan, from Latin expendere 'pay out'; partly also a shortening of obsolete dispend, from Latin dispendere 'pay out'

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