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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expend
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Carers expended a tremendous amount of time and energy in this role.
▪ Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.
▪ Attempts to reconcile these two decisions have expanded human ingenuity and expended an unconscionable amount of time, effort and paper.
effort
▪ Therefore such burrows give you a greater return for the effort expended.
▪ Program evaluation is concerned specifically with determining the worth or values of efforts expended to achieve a given purpose or objective.
▪ It's just a pity that all that effort you expended was wasted really.
▪ No matter how much effort was expended, all intention was governed by the second law of thermodynamics.
▪ Motivation is therefore a causal relationship between effort expended, the performance attained and the reward related to the performance.
energy
▪ Recovering from the energy expended, Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.
▪ To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.
▪ If we consume more energy than we expend, the surplus is stored as fat.
▪ To date, a lot of energy has been expended but successes have been limited.
▪ As more time and energy is expended there is more exposure to critical evaluation.
▪ Guilt also plays a part in the energy expended.
▪ You know the kind of energy you have to expend to be that?
money
▪ Rather the focus was again upon expending the money more judiciously.
sum
▪ Rather than expending vast sums on political posturing, we may in-stead choose to invest in potentially profitable space enterprises.
▪ Plunging in with both feet and expending large sums on equipment and delicate fishes will almost always result in failure and disappointment.
time
▪ The husband can feel abandoned, and expend more of his time and energy in his work.
▪ Now, I expend considerable time and thought on recruiting and interviewing.
▪ Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.
▪ The best way to create solid structure without expending extra editing time is through the fast and simple process of listing.
▪ Users and manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to find ways to improve computer security.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carrying small weights increases the calories you expend when walking for fitness.
▪ The final result hardly justifies the amount of time and energy that has been expended.
▪ We expend a lot of effort every day upon quite pointless activities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As regions specialize and expend production, they can lower their average costs.
▪ If we consume more energy than we expend, the surplus is stored as fat.
▪ It can't afford to expend too much energy on a prey it's not certain of catching.
▪ Recovering from the energy expended, Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar's Right Eliminate.
▪ Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
▪ To liquefy them for storage in propellant tanks, a considerable amount of electrical energy must be expended to run refrigeration equipment.
▪ To lose weight really effectively, you need to eat fewer calories than you expend each day and increase your activity level.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expend

Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.] 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.

If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness.
--Shak.

Expend

Expend \Ex*pend"\, v. i.

  1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.

  2. To pay out or disburse money.

    They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.
    --Macaulay .

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expend

early 15c., from Latin expendere "pay out, weigh out money," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant). Related: Expended; expending.

Wiktionary
expend

vb. 1 (label en transitive) to consume, exhaust (qualifier: some resource) 2 (label en transitive rare of money) to spend, disburse

WordNet
expend

  1. v. use up, consume fully; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" [syn: use]

  2. pay out; "spend money" [syn: spend, drop]

Usage examples of "expend".

But having got rid of the thing, Alsa was part of the past, expendable, perhaps already expended.

Event lasteth among men the space of one cycle of years, and after that a fresh Illusion springeth to befool mankind, and the Seven must expend the concluding half-cycle in preparing the edge of the Sword for a new mastery.

If a Strigoi cannot expend the required magic points it will fall into a cataleptic state and unable to use any of its powers.

But at the time, his only impressions as he came down the shuttle ramp in the smoke-dimmed early morning sun were of ravaged cityscape, the fighters swooping overhead as they expended their last missiles covering the landing and, above all, the sounds of battle.

In several other cases, for instance, when a leaf after describing during the day one or more fairly regular ellipses, zigzags much in the evening, it appears as if energy was being expended, so that the great evening rise or fall might coincide with the period of the day proper for this movement.

They are holding her level of sexual expression low so that she does not expend excessive energy in orgasm.

It is a well-established physiological fact, that during the wakeful hours the vital energies are being expended, the powers of life diminished, and, if wakefulness is continued beyond a certain limit, the system becomes enfeebled and death is the result.

The impression forced on our minds was that the leaf was expending superfluous movement, so that the great nocturnal rise might not occur at too early an hour.

Thereby he ingests the life-force of the woman without expending any of his own.

Japanese air forces so completely controlled the air over Manila Bay that reinforcements could not be brought in by sea, and the r7s fleeted up from Mindanao were soon expended.

The king and queen were badly weakened by the last Gigantine War, had expended almost all their energy to hold the fabric of the realm together.

As soon as the final arrows were expended, they moved down to reclaim them from the dead beasts, while the skinners came behind them like gorecrows to a battle scene.

We can only hope that Grome expends all his energy and that the ship survives, as it might survive a natural storm at sea.

His mental activity, up to the age of seventy-three, is as prodigious as the activity which he had expended in living a multiform and incalculable life.

But I feel certain that your father had already expended a great deal of money with that learned man.