Associations to the word «Expend»

Wiktionary

EXPEND, verb. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource)
EXPEND, verb. (transitive) (rare) (of money) to spend, disburse

Dictionary definition

EXPEND, verb. Use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions".
EXPEND, verb. Pay out; "spend money".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne