spend
- IPA[spend]
美式
- pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services；pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something
- an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time
verb: spend, 3rd person present: spends, gerund or present participle: spending, past tense: spent, past participle: spent
noun: spend, plural noun: spends
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動詞
- 1. pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services the firm has spent $100,000 on hardware and software
- ▪ pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something the college spent $140 on each of its students 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ used to show the activity in which someone is engaged or the place where they are living over a period of time she spent a lot of time traveling 同義詞
- ▪ 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
名詞
- 1. informal an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time the average spend at the cafe is about $10 a head
- a policy, usually associated with the political left, of increasing taxes in order to fund an ... they remain committed to their tax-and-spend philosophy
- implement a policy of raising taxes in order to increase spending: you can't tax-and-spend your way to prosperity
Oxford American Dictionary
- urinate (used euphemistically)
Oxford American Dictionary
- used euphemistically to refer to a need to urinate
Oxford Dictionary
- a political policy of increasing taxes in order to fund an increase in government spending: an old-fashioned, left-of-centre tax-and-spend party
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[spɛnd]
英式
- 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
- an amount of money paid out: the average spend at the cafe is £10 a head
Oxford Dictionary
