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Answer for the clue "Pass in a specific way ", 8 letters:
spending

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent vb. (present participle of spend English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a consumer/spending boom (= a sudden increase in the amount people spend ) ▪ Various factors caused the consumer boom. a spending pattern ▪ The bank’s computer can detect unusual spending patterns. a spending pledge ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spending \Spend"ing\, n. The act of expending; expenditure. Spending money , money set apart for extra (not necessary) personal expenses; pocket money. [Colloq.]

Usage examples of spending.

Still, with so much of the reported profits tied to mark-to-market accounting, Enron brought in comparatively little actual cash, the commodity desperately needed to pay for all of the spending and new businesses.

No focus anymore, just mindless ambling, spending his blood, dying in profound shock and absolute terror.

Movements of precious metals and ambulatory currency spiked metropolitan areas, while consumer spending showed up as gangs of small people, one per million, flashing their spending areas and products like dust motes dancing on sunlight.

For the time being, we enjoyed a kind of amplified friendship, spending our leisure moments together, our physical contact limited to hand-holding and kisses on the cheek.

Yet, oddly, Marengo made himself easy to follow, even spending three-quarters of an hour in a coffee bar, while Alan prayed that it would prove the site of the meet and Bonner would appear.

Since his mother had begged him to be especially nice to the girl, Bret started spending a little bit of time with her before and after his work.

Castle Gay: he is at the Hydropathic here under an assumed name, passing as a foreigner: and he is spending his time with the very foreigners who are giving you trouble.

Karia and so past Marga and its Frenchmen to Kutali, thus spending the least possible time in preliminaries.

Garth would see to the foodstuffs, and meantime Imogene might buy herself a few books at the Midling Wells shop, for the boat offered no amusement and the weather might be too chilly for spending much time on deck.

It is in no way honored by spending billions of dollars of tax monies to put a piece of painted metal on the moon.

All it took was the shuddering thought of spending the holidays with Seymour the mortician to focus her energies on adoring Luke.

His brother spending every waking moment with Rosalind had kept him far away from the Mortmain bastard and out of any more possible danger.

In fact, I once computed that it would be possible to spend four and a half years visiting them all without spending a pence, without overstaying a welcome, and without imposing on the same relative twice.

Never had she had two such powerful orgasms in one session and here she was going to have three, so long as her unknown paramour did not do her the discourtesy of spending his load too early.

It had not been entirely by way of pompously spending his money that Mr.