spend
- IPA[spɛnd]
英式
- give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something;use or give out the whole of; exhaust
- an amount of money paid out
verb: spend, 3rd person present: spends, gerund or present participle: spending, past tense: spent, past participle: spent
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something the firm has spent £100,000 on hardware people are beginning to spend on the high street 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ use or give out the whole of; exhaust she couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money the initial surge of interest had spent itself 同義詞
- 2. pass (time) in a specified way or in a particular place she spent a lot of time travelling he spent ten years in Malawi 同義詞
名詞
- 1. informal an amount of money paid out the average spend at the cafe is £10 a head