1. The act of spending money for goods or services
   "The government's expending on infrastructure created many jobs";
   - expenditure

1. Utilize or spend available resources or supplies
   "this car expends a lot of gas";
   - consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use
    
2. Pay out
   "expend money";
   - spend, drop

Type of: disbursal, disbursement, outlay, pay, spending

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