Synonyms for spend
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1. spend

   Synonyms:
   disperse, dissipate, divide, parcel, portion, scatter, squander, waste

   Antonyms:
   accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, store up

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1. spend

   Synonyms:
   bestow, waste, exhaust, squander, expend, lay out, consume, disburse, lavish

   Antonyms:
   retain, save, hoard, accumulate, husband, economize

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1. spend, passverb

   pass time in a specific way

   "how are you spending your summer vacation?"

   Synonyms:
   run, perish, elapse, go past, make pass, lead, top, put across, go by, draw, evanesce, occur, die, turn over, go, slide by, fade, hand, drop, legislate, happen, egest, exceed, fleet, pass away, slip away, drop dead, overstep, expend, transcend, make it, authorize, expire, devolve, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, give, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, croak, lapse, pass off, give-up the ghost, return, blow over, take place, snuff it, overhaul, go through, reach, communicate, come about, choke, pop off, go across, overtake, travel by, glide by, extend, decease, fall, pass, pass by, clear, exit, conk, excrete, buy the farm, pass along, authorise, go along, surpass, guide, pass on

2. spend, expend, dropverb

   pay out

   "spend money"

   Synonyms:
   unload, fell, dribble, send packing, drop off, dismiss, drop down, sink, drip, degenerate, deteriorate, overleap, strike down, leave out, throw, cast, cut down, pretermit, put down, neglect, devolve, expend, send away, set down, flatten, pass, swing, use, shake off, throw off, throw away, dangle, drop, discharge, overlook, knock off, miss, cast off, shed, omit

3. spendverb

   spend completely

   "I spend my pocket money in two days"

   Synonyms:
   pass, expend, drop

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1. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   expend, disburse, lay out

2. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   waste, consume, exhaust, squander, dissipate, lavish, use up

3. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   employ, devote, bestow, apply

4. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   pass, lead

5. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   lay out money, incur expense

6. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   vanish, be lost, be consumed

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1. spendverb

   Synonyms:
   expend, disburse

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1. List of paraphrases for "spend":

   devote, expend, spending, pass, dedicate, skip, respend, invest, allocate, expenditure, go, move

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How to use spend in a sentence?

1. Margrethe Vestager:

   There are differences in how much member states can spend depending on their fiscal space, but... we preserve the single market because we really need the single market for our recovery.

2. Zig Ziglar:

   Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

3. Tony Fiorillo:

   If juveniles from these dinosaurs are being found, it means that these animals had to spend a great deal of time mating and nesting in these sites.

4. Alex Trebek:

   I tell audiences who come to our tapings that the thing I enjoy most about the show is the 30 minutes I spend onstage with the contestants, because I love spending time with bright people. And with these three, it was particularly enjoyable, i hate spending time with stupid people.

5. President Barack Obama:

   It came down to politics -- the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections, they worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-Second Amendment.