spend
part of speech
verb (spend, spends, spent, spending)
meaning for a pupil
1) To spend is to pay out money. tree →
2) To spend time is to use it doing something or being somewhere: «spend a day at the zoo». tree →
sense in the lessons
the same as pay: «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs; money left = money at first − money spent; time spent is added like other times; phrases: «spend on», «spend time», «spend the night», «spend wisely»
examples
- How much does Anna spend? tree →
- Sam spent 12 cents on sweets and 8 cents on a pen. tree →
- Max spends 2 hours reading. tree →
- We spent the weekend at Gran's. tree →
- Don't spend all your pocket money at once. tree →
- How much time do you spend on homework? tree →
- She spent 5 dollars and saved 3. tree →
- We spent the night in a tent. tree →
- "Have you spent the night comfortably?" tree →
note
Past: spent. «How much does A spend» asks for all A paid: add the costs. Money left = money at first − money spent. Opposite of spend: save.
In the corpora
- Many people are paid early in December, before Christmas, so January feels very long with the money already spent.
- A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money that must be paid back later.
- That night she opens her banking app and groans: "The app says we've spent eighty dollars on takeaways this month."
- A debit card spends money already in the account; a credit card borrows money from the card company to be paid back later.
- An overdraft lets you spend below zero, which is borrowing, and banks charge high interest on it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spend» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.