Definition

1. Verb:
   • To pay out or spend money: To use money to pay for goods or services.
   • To use up or consume fully: To use a resource, such as time, energy, or material, until it is depleted.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The government will expend significant funds on infrastructure projects.
  • She expended all her energy on the marathon and needed to rest.
  • Do not expend your resources on trivial matters.

Advanced Usage

• "to expend effort on something": To use a lot of physical or mental energy trying to do something.
  • He expended considerable effort on the research paper.
• "to expend capital": To invest or spend financial resources.
  • The company is prepared to expend capital to enter the new market.

Variants and Related Words

• Expenditure (n): The action of spending or using resources; an amount of money spent.
  • The project's total expenditure was within budget.
• Expendable (adj): Designed to be used once and then abandoned or destroyed; of little significance when compared to an overall purpose.
  • The mission used expendable rocket boosters.

Synonyms

• Spend: To pay out money.
• Consume: To use up a resource.
• Deplete: To reduce the amount of a resource.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

(There are no common idioms directly formed with "expend".)

Verb

1. pay out
   • spend money
2. use up, consume fully
   • The legislature expended its time on school questions