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# spend

«spend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pay out money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (spend, spends, spent, spending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To spend is to pay out money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#m1)

2) To spend time is to use it doing something or being somewhere: «spend a day at the zoo». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the same as pay: «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs; money left = money at first − money spent; time spent is added like other times; phrases: «spend on», «spend time», «spend the night», «spend wisely»

### examples

- How much does Anna spend? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x1)
- Sam spent 12 cents on sweets and 8 cents on a pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x2)
- Max spends 2 hours reading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x3)
- We spent the weekend at Gran's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x4)
- Don't spend all your pocket money at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x5)
- How much time do you spend on homework? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x6)
- She spent 5 dollars and saved 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x7)
- We spent the night in a tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x8)
- "Have you spent the night comfortably?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/#x9)

### note

Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.

### In the corpora

- [Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/5-where-money-comes-from/7/)
- [A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money that must be paid back later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/2/)
- [That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/7/)
- [A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money from the card company to be paid back later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/11/)
- [An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/7-cards-banks-and-apps/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.