- (v.i.) To pay out or disburse money.
- (v.t.) To lay out, apply or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
- (v.i.) To be laid out, used or consumed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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