Spending synonyms
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Part of speech:
The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
To pronounce; utter:
The spending or disbursement of money:
(Business, commerce) an expenditure, cost or outlay.
The definition of an expenditure is the act of spending money or time and it is something on which you spend money.
To drop (troops or supplies) by parachute; airdrop
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(Slang) To abandon a claim, fight, etc.; give in or give up
To assume or pay for (a cost or costs).
To give, grant, or bestow
(Obs.) To give in marriage
(Colloquial) To pay.
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To lose or give off a stored electrical charge
To give money to in return for goods or services rendered:
Allocate is defined as the act of setting aside something for a certain reason.
To pay out; expend
To pay or settle (a debt)
To give or supply in common with others; give to a common fund or for a common purpose.
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To prepare and give out medicines.
Waste is defined as to destroy, wear away or use up.
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
To waste; squander.
(Slang) To buy something or pay an expense:
To extend or prolong in time
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Splurge is defined as to spend money extravagantly, or to show off.
(Chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one's position on the board.
To spend, or distribute money.
To give something in abundance to:
(Intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
To put forth or use energetically; put into action or use
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To slip by; pass
To fatigue or spend emotionally or physically:
Distribute is defined as to divide, scatter or hand out.
To use up or waste.
To set apart for a specific purpose or use:
To supply what is specified by or required for:
To make use of; use
To use incorrectly or improperly; misapply
To be discarded or abolished:
To arrive at or attain the end of:
To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
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conserving (antonym)
To keep from being damaged, lost, or wasted; save
keeping (antonym)
To continue to have or hold; not lose or give up
saving (antonym)
To avoid waste or expense; economize.
hoarding (antonym)
To accumulate and hide or keep in reserve
getting (antonym)
Get is defined as to receive.
receiving (antonym)
(--- Sports) To catch or get possession of (a pass or a kicked ball, for example).
earning (antonym)
To get or deserve as a result of something one has done
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timing (related)
To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
increasing (related)
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
budget (related)
borrowing (related)
inflation (related)
investment (related)
subsidy (related)
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The act of disbursing money
Find another word for spending. In this page you can discover 64 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for spending, like: disbursement, passing, lazing, outlay, outgo, expenditure, dropping, expending, giving, blowing and absorbing.
