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Definition of Spends
1. spend [v] - See also: spend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spends
Literary usage of Spends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside History of the White House: The Complete History of the Domestic and by Gilson Willets (1908)
"How Mr. Roosevelt spends His Sundays President Roosevelt attends church ...
The rest of the day he spends in those pursuits permitted to a robust and active ..."
2. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"The extravagant roan spends his money without Extravagant and prodigal serre to
... An extravagant man, however, in the restricted sense, mostly spends upon ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1887)
"... then at Woodstock at the celebration of the feast of Pentecost, at Doncaster,
at Hatfield in Yorkshire, where he spends Christmas, again at Windsor, ..."
4. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"spends the summer in New Haven. — Returns to Charleston, but meets with poor
success. —Assists in founding Academy of Arts, which has but a short life. ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... that rises in a bubble, and spends itself in a oiie. Pride is no more than an
unnatural ... spends ..."
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