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to expend
01
to spend money for various purposes, such as acquiring goods, services, or assets
Transitive: to expend money
Examples
Businesses carefully plan and expend funds on marketing strategies to increase brand visibility.
02
to consume or spend resources, energy, or time for a specific purpose
Transitive: to expend resources or time
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
expend
3rd person singular
expends
Present participle
expending
Past simple
expended
Past participle
expended
Examples
The company had to expend a significant amount of money to launch the new product.
Lexical Tree
expendable
expender
expending
expend
