English Dictionary

spend

IPA（発音記号）

/spɛnd/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞 古風

(transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money). / To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon. / (dated) To squander. / To exhaust, to wear out. / To consume, to use up (time).

日本語の意味

お金や資源を使う／支出する / 時間や労力を費やす、使い切る / （時代によっては）無駄遣いする、浪費する

We decided to spend more on renewable energy this year.

今年は再生可能エネルギーにもっとお金を使うことにしました。

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To pay out (money).

He spends far more on gambling than he does on living proper.

意味（2）

To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.

I […] am never loath / To spend my judgment.

意味（3）

(dated) To squander.

to spend an estate in gambling

意味（4）

To exhaust, to wear out.

The violence of the waves was spent.

意味（5）

To consume, to use up (time).

My sister usually spends her free time in nightclubs.

意味（6）

(dated, transitive, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.

The fish spends his semen on eggs which he finds floating and whose mother he has never seen.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.

Energy spends in the using of it.

意味（8）

To be diffused; to spread.

The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.

意味（9）

(mining) To break ground; to continue working.

spends （ present singular third-person ）

spending （ participle present ）

spent （ participle past ）

spent （ past ）