Antonyms for spending
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : spend |
| Phonetic Transcription : spɛnd |
Definition of spending
Origin :- "to pay out or away" (money or wealth), Old English -spendan (in forspendan "use up"), from Latin expendere "to weigh out money, pay down" (see expend). A general Germanic borrowing (cf. Old High German spendon, German and Middle Dutch spenden, Old Norse spenna). In reference to labor, thoughts, time, etc., attested from c.1300.
- verb give, pay out
- verb use time; occupy
- He had, therefore, merely gone to the city, and was spending his time in the taverns.
- Extract from : « Rico and Wiseli » by Johanna Spyri
- I have no idea of spending another thousand years as I spent the last.
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "My friend, who is spending a few weeks with me," explained the Doctor.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- He drove over to see her while she was spending a few days with an aunt in Sudleigh.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- Eagerly I worked at the laboratory, spending most of my evenings in study.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
- Actually, since I have got back to London, I am spending all my surplus cash on hansoms.
- Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
- He's taken to drink, and is spending in wickedness the money his father left him.
- Extract from : « Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home » by Bayard Taylor
- After spending the night at Clermont, the voyage was resumed on Wednesday.
- Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
- She shivered at the thought of spending hours, days, in this place alone.
- Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
- Why, I have been at the whiskey shop, spending my last sixpence.
- Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various
Synonyms for spending
- absorb
- allocate
- ante up
- apply
- bestow
- blow
- cast away
- come across
- come through
- concentrate
- confer
- consume
- contribute
- cough up
- defray
- deplete
- devote
- disburse
- dispense
- dissipate
- donate
- drain
- drift
- drop
- employ
- empty
- evote
- exhaust
- expend
- fill
- fool around
- foot the bill
- fritter
- give
- go
- hand out
- idle
- invest
- kill
- lavish
- lay out
- laze
- let pass
- liquidate
- misspend
- misuse
- outlay
- pass
- pay down
- pay up
- put in
- run through
- settle
- shell out
- spring for
- squander
- throw away
- use
- use up
- waste
- while away
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