Definition of Expending

1. Noun. The act of spending money for goods or services.

Exact synonyms: Expenditure
Generic synonyms: Disbursal, Disbursement, Outlay, Spending
Derivative terms: Expend, Expend

Definition of Expending

1. Verb. (present participle of expend) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expending

1. expend [v] - See also: expend

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expending

expelleth
expelling
expellings
expels
expence
expences
expencive
expend
expendabilities
expendability
expendable
expendables
expended
expender
expenders
expending
expenditures
expends
expense account
expense record
expensed
expenseful
expenseless
expenses
expensing
expensive
expensive drunk
expensively

Literary usage of Expending

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1866)
"... and after expending two days in negotiation, (the particulars of which do not appear,) the Resident not receiving the satisfaction he looked for, ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"On the other hand, Conrad had a double motive in expending so much money in prosecuting the accused. He is the sort of a man who will follow the person for ..."

3. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853)
"... sums are expending upon the erection of new churches, a very inconsiderable fraction of which would improve those sacred edifices, and effectually ..."

4. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) (1885)
"Mr. T, C. HORSFALL contributed a Paper on the question, ' Are Local Governing Bodies justified in expending large sums of Public Money for the purpose of ..."

5. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1898)
"... that therefore writs of error are to be brought here SOLARTE expending the time of the suitors, which is the time of the PALMER. country; ..."

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