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SPENDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of spending or disbursing money
Synonyms:
disbursal; disbursement; outlay; spending
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spending" is a kind of...):
defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spending"):
expending; expenditure (the act of spending money for goods or services)
compensatory spending; deficit spending; pump priming (spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy)
Derivation:
spend (pay out)
spend (spend completely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Money paid out; an amount spent
Synonyms:
expenditure; outgo; outlay; spending
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("spending" is a kind of...):
transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spending"):
cost (the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor)
expense (money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer)
transfer payment (a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb spend
Context examples:
His mother and sister were out spending the evening with a relation.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At his advice, on the afternoon of the 4th we set off together, with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlaui.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ruth and her whole family were spending the long summer in the Sierras, at Lake Tahoe.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In light of the results, the authors recommend spending more time standing in the office as a good strategy to use up more energy and thus avoid storing it as fat.
(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)
They concluded that spending more time conducting physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity may help modulate these immunometabolic responses during the early stages of pregnancy in ‘healthy’ pregnant women.
(A new study highlights the importance of undertaking physical activity of moderate–vigorous intensity during the early weeks of pregnancy, University of Granada)
Mice showed a strong preference for spending time in the reward quadrant, freely choosing to spend more than 70 percent of their time in this area.
(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)
I'm in good employ, you know, Mas'r Davy, and I han't no way now of spending what I gets.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Now do not make yourself uneasy with any queer fancies because he has been spending a few days at Richmond.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Though Mrs. Jennings was in the habit of spending a large portion of the year at the houses of her children and friends, she was not without a settled habitation of her own.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
It would have been shameful to fail after spending so much time and money, when everyone knew that you could do well.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
