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Noun spending has 1 sense
  1. spending, disbursement, disbursal, outlay - the act of spending or disbursing money
    --1 is a kind of payment, defrayal, defrayment
    --1 has particulars:
     expending, expenditure; deficit spending, compensatory spending, pump priming
    Derived forms: verb spend3, verb spend2
,Verb spend has 3 senses
  1. spend, pass - pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"
    Sample sentence:
    They spend a long time
  2. spend, expend, drop - pay out; "spend money"
    --2 is one way to pay
    Derived forms: noun spender3, noun spending1
    Sample sentences:
    They spend money on their grandchild
    They spend the money
  3. spend - spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"
    --3 is one way to     consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
    Derived forms: noun spender2, noun spending1
    Sample sentence:
    They spend the money
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