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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   spend

   • IPA[spend]

   美式

   • v.
     pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services；pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something
   • n.
     an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time

   • verb: spend, 3rd person present: spends, gerund or present participle: spending, past tense: spent, past participle: spent

   • noun: spend, plural noun: spends

2. • 釋義
   • 相關詞
   • 片語

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. pay out (money) in buying or hiring goods or services the firm has spent $100,000 on hardware and software
   • ▪ pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of something the college spent $140 on each of its students 同義詞 pay out, lay out, expend, disburse, squander, ... 更多go through, run through, waste, fritter away, lavish, informalfork out, shell out, dish out, cough up, blow, splash out, splurge, lash out, stump up, blue, knock down, archaicspring, informalpony up反義詞 save, keep, hoard
   • ▪ used to show the activity in which someone is engaged or the place where they are living over a period of time she spent a lot of time traveling 同義詞 pass, occupy, fill, take up, while away, ... 更多use up, put in, devote, employ, waste
   • ▪ use or give out the whole of; exhaust she couldn't buy any more because she had already spent her money the initial surge of interest had spent itself 同義詞 use up, consume, exhaust, deplete, drain

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. informal an amount of money paid for a particular purpose or over a particular period of time the average spend at the cafe is about $10 a head

   tax-and-spend

   • n.
     a policy, usually associated with the political left, of increasing taxes in order to fund an ... they remain committed to their tax-and-spend philosophy
   • v.
     implement a policy of raising taxes in order to increase spending: you can't tax-and-spend your way to prosperity

   Oxford American Dictionary

   spend a penny

   • ph.
     used euphemistically to refer to a need to urinate

   Oxford Dictionary

   tax and spend

   • n.
     a political policy of increasing taxes in order to fund an increase in government spending: an old-fashioned, left-of-centre tax-and-spend party

   Oxford Dictionary

   spend a penny

   • ph.
     urinate (used euphemistically)

   Oxford American Dictionary

   片語

   • spend a penny
3. • 更多解釋

   spend

   • IPA[spɛnd]

   英式

   • v.
     give (money) to pay for goods, services, or so as to benefit someone or something: the firm has spent £100,000 on hardware people are beginning to spend on the high street
   • n.
     an amount of money paid out: the average spend at the cafe is £10 a head

   Oxford Dictionary